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> In the US, they have – at best – protected the "non-essential" class from COVID, while exposing the essential working class to the disease. The lockdowns are
by iujjkfjdkkdkf 6y ago
> In the US, they have – at best – protected the "non-essential" class from COVID, while exposing the essential working class to the disease. The lockdowns are trickle down epidemiology.
I wish this got more attention. The whole culture around covid is really centered on comfortable office workers talking about zoom fatigue and looking down on people that break the "rules" while the people that feed them are expected to keep working as usual, follow the rules about socializing and fun that have been imposed on them, and not complain.
- kjrose 6y agoCanada as well. It's absolutely bonkers watching small businesses forced to shut down and go out of business while Walmart has people packed in. The issue really is the people enacting the rules do not seem to have any real connection to most of the working class forced to suffer from them.
- kietay 6y agoAnd are predominantly in the age group most at risk which will surely cloud their judgement
- iujjkfjdkkdkf 6y agoFrom what I've seen, we have failed utterly in protecting vulnerable people. The focus on blanket lockdowns and enforcing silly rules has distracted from hygiene measures that actually could have kept vulnerable people safe. Where I am, almost all the deaths have been in nursing homes, which were a hotbed for covid cases. Fining kids for having a picnic in the park did nothing to stop that, but that is what people liked to focus on because it fits the overall culture that has formed around covid.