The absence of official requests to reorganize society around well-being at this far into the pandemic is telling. Where are the calls for abandoning economic c

The absence of official requests to reorganize society around well-being at this far into the pandemic is telling. Where are the calls for abandoning economic concerns? What about developing a more giving society? What about promoting people isolate within communities large enough to actually meet all their needs, as opposed to a bubble of only a few, which is practically guaranteed to lead to all kinds of codependent mess? What about dismantling the parts of society that allow for such rapid transmission of contagion and not simply pausing these or those parts? The avoidant, isolatory, individualistic approaches we've seen in the world are still only a subset of mitigations we could've been trying, but deep changes don't seem to be officially proposed anywhere I've seen. This has been bothering me since the pandemic was announced. I don't understand what it'll take for people to get serious here. It seems like the same hesitation to implement drastic changes that underlie the persistent states of white supremacy. It seems like a pandemic version of the "Gosh...I don't know. That seems over the top." response to actually dismantling fundamentally racist systems instead of ineffective, slow reform. Denial can look like lying. It can also look like indecisiveness. It can also look like trying to do a bunch of things that will have predictably negative effects in order to look like something's being done, but for sure won't address the core issues. Even this letter smells like denial, since the proposed actions don't address all needs and is an appeal for more of the same types of mitigations we've been seeing. Humans have a finite set of needs and thriving means meeting them all in ways that deny none. Have any of these strategies been examined from that perspective? Online schooling sure hasn't. That's one singular massive thing that's been imposed on young people and it's been an incredible challenge to watch friends who are teachers and friends who are parents comply with what everyone agrees are neglectful-toward-children approaches. This letter seems to ask for more of the same. I'm glad people are speaking up and look forward to proposals way more radical than this. Humans have a finite set of needs. If any solution hasn't been assessed from the perspective of "does this systematically deny anyone's needs?" then the assessment is incomplete to the point of being massively harmful. THAT is unethical and illogical.