are necessitated only because in this country we were incapable of embracing, or even in any meaningful way, articulating, the necessary and obvious solution to this pandemic:
• support individuals and businesses 100%, while
• developing effective test, trace, treat, and control
There is no mystery here. The examples of successful variants are everywhere: literally, everywhere else in the first and some of the second world.
The arguments for UBI, single payer, and not least, the eradication of right-wing indoctrination networks which cultivate a meaningful subset of the populace to be uninformed, uninformable tribal victimhood-rage-junkies divorced from consensus reality and hostile to science, have never been more stark.
Yet nowhere are these self-evident truths being articulated, debated, trumpeted, defended, forced.
Every vehicle which the right habitually paints as "left" liberal or biases that I follow,
is so laughably mealy-mouthed, equivocating, both-siding, and self-constrained in its framing, let alone advocacy, as to provoke nihlistic despair.
The question is not why Google is resigning itself to WFH.
The question is not why employees must now form micro-schooling pods out of pocket.
The question is why there are not pitchforks and torches forcing the obvious basic systemic change in this country necessary to bring us in-line with every other functional variant of 21st c. intelligent capitalism.
We have been committed by short-sighted billionaires who backed social tribalism as a tactic to wealth consolidation,
to a path of total cultural and political self-destruction.
This and the related issue of school closure,
are necessitated only because in this country we were incapable of embracing, or even in any meaningful way, articulating, the necessary and obvious solution to this pandemic: • support individuals and businesses 100%, while • developing effective test, trace, treat, and control
There is no mystery here. The examples of successful variants are everywhere: literally, everywhere else in the first and some of the second world.
The arguments for UBI, single payer, and not least, the eradication of right-wing indoctrination networks which cultivate a meaningful subset of the populace to be uninformed, uninformable tribal victimhood-rage-junkies divorced from consensus reality and hostile to science, have never been more stark.
Yet nowhere are these self-evident truths being articulated, debated, trumpeted, defended, forced.
Every vehicle which the right habitually paints as "left" liberal or biases that I follow,
is so laughably mealy-mouthed, equivocating, both-siding, and self-constrained in its framing, let alone advocacy, as to provoke nihlistic despair.
The question is not why Google is resigning itself to WFH.
The question is not why employees must now form micro-schooling pods out of pocket.
The question is why there are not pitchforks and torches forcing the obvious basic systemic change in this country necessary to bring us in-line with every other functional variant of 21st c. intelligent capitalism.
We have been committed by short-sighted billionaires who backed social tribalism as a tactic to wealth consolidation,
to a path of total cultural and political self-destruction.
So f--king tiresome and so, so, so unnecessary.