Re: Corona Virus: is it the beginning of the end?
Accman, I'll actually engage with your last post, because it doesn't just throw out hatred for leftists and conspiracy/pseudoscience nonsense.
1. Defunt the police
This doesn't mean taking -all of their money, or even most of it, but money not being spent on police can go to people who need it
2. Defund the military
Same deal. No one's talking about getting rid of it, just taking a bit of its money away. Incidentally, where were you when corporations got enormous bailouts and the average joe didn't?
3. Allocate properly
Let's face it. Capitalism overall is busted, but western capitalism has extreme concentrations of wealth in all the wrong places. This needs to be addressed, so until you're willing to concede that point, we aren't even going to have a financial discussion because every question you ask is actually an accusation made in bad faith with too little evidence.
In Canada, at least, we have money going to people who are out of work due to Covid-19, but we're also opening more slowly. You know what else we discovered? We discovered that masks are cheap, and that a lot of businesses can operate fairly well so long as employees and patrons just agree to wear masks. Is it perfect? God no. But it's a lot better than total lockdown. Remember, too: the total-lockdown-forever ship was never one I was sailing, and I think that goes for pretty much everyone else here. don't use hyperbole to make your points for you, it won't end well. Lockdown for a little while made sense when numbers were out of control and we didn't know as much. Now that we do, it's time to start trying to minimize the damage. This -does mean trying to open up some businesses. It does -not mean that everyone should just forget masks and be done.
In other words, the answer to your questions is a simple one. It's not relevant.
You are clearly motivated to your stance based on personal loss. I have said multiple times now that personal loss can be very difficult, and I know a lot of people struggling for one reason or another. A friend lost a job yesterday and is now scrambling to feed her two kids. That sucks. There's no way to soften that fact. But does that mean we should just toss our toys out of the pram and decide fuck everybody else? Well, if we're three, maybe, but adults really shouldn't engage in this behaviour. At this point, what you sound like is, "Well, if I'm going to suffer due to this, then I'm going to increase the likelihood that other people suffer". Don't like it? If the mask fits, you know...
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