Is this really the best we can do?
The world is literally on fire. The environment is lashing out at us while we blithely spread a virus around the world that can cripple economies. It didn't have to be this way. Except, with no challenge to the hegemony of capitalism, that's exactly how it had to be. We were never going to be lead by visionaries or 'innovators', despite how much our stupid leaders might want from us. Where is the innovation? Strangled by austerity.
There is no vision under capitalism. Only a short term concern for immediate gain. Long term planning doesn't gel and so preparations for, and indeed the very notion of, a pandemic is ignored. Throughout there has been no leadership, only profiteering. Tracking facilities given to Deloitte insurance. Not trained medical staff. By all accounts this service will be up and running by the winter. By accounts of those operating it, that's unlikely.
They call this strategy "whackamole". How ironic, considering that is a phrase intended to describe a state of desperate fire fighting. Like the old fairground game, the moles keep popping up and you desperately try to keep up until you can't. How apt a description then. Certainly not one that seems effective.
This pattern is replicated, like a virus, across the world. Everywhere capitalism has a bootprint, it has the stain of infection. That's before factoring in conspiracy theories, which proliferate among those capitalism exploits the most. The tragedy is, in the most extreme cases, they lash out when this is pointed out, even unconsciously. Look at the Trump fans risking their own health to cheer him on - his own voter base comprises those most at risk!
Finally, the governmorons have proclaimed everyone send their kids back to school come September - on pain of financial deprivation. What a ridiculous situation, but capitalists cannot understand this. The only way capitalists can do anything is through such means. This is just bullying and of course counter productive; how can it help achieve any goal to impoverish people? If your goal is laudable then should it not stand on its own merits? This does nothing to allay peoples fears which, obviously, arre the main drivers for reticence on the part of parents. It speaks nothing to the question of whether schools are in fact safe at all. In fact confusion abounds still.
Like so much from the Tories this past three months. If nothing else has been demonstrated, it is that our self entitled self aggrandising ruling class are woefully short of the mark. I hope people can realise now that will not change. Ever.
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