Dave5

Add these factors together: how do you run a society with a constantly, rapidly increasing subset of the population long-term ill? Frankly, it doesn’t make any sense. It’s not only a moral issue; yes, I believe it’s wrong to forcibly infect everyone with a vascular disease with unknown long-term health effects over and over again. But it’s also just practically unfeasible to operate a functional economy while rapidly disabling the workforce.

How did we get here? When we were first vaccinated, many of us in early 2021, was this the future we were promised? Constant reinfections that will surely disable many of us, but hopefully it won’t be you, so go about your day?

No, as a matter of fact. In 2021, we never would’ve accepted such a state of affairs. Let’s review the never-ending media spin that won’t stop spinning, that disorienting cascade of normalizing bullshit, or what I like to call: the Boiling Frogs timeline.

… and the real and noxious observation:

Whereas HIV, malaria, TB and polio elimination are long-term acknowledged goals of public health, “elimination” became a dirty word in the COVID era. Despite having the technical know-how to drastically reduce airborne virus spread in indoor spaces- ventilation, filtration, and new tools like Far UVC- we do nothing and sneer that action is impossible and naive. This kneejerk violent reaction toward the mere suggestion of any preventative measures carries drastic implications for the future of public health generally, as does the now-mainstreamed anti-vaxxer claim that getting sick makes people healthy. (It doesn’t).

Lots of people bitch, rightly, about how our culture has lost it’s ambition; how all of those great Osbourne books of the future we read as kids are now just anachronisms. I think that that same malaise infects (not a pun) our approach to COVID. It is the as if neo-liberalism has infected everything we do. We have a political class that encourages us to believe that great things aren’t possible and we’re now reaping the rewards.

https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/how-the-press-manufactured-consent