Powerful article on the social vs biological "ends" of #COVID
”Denial is a powerful force, the engine of the cognitive dissonance that we see in the CVS ad campaign. By denying the value of human life, the millions of Covid deaths, and the new disability running rampant through our populations, we are able to manufacture the social end of a pandemic even in the midst of its biological peaks…”
https://emilysdupree.substack.com/p/manufacturing-the-end-of-a-pandemic
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"This radicalized population erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, leading to one of the largest mass movements we had seen in our lifetimes, too. The intertwined nature of racial capitalism was newly visible, as people stuck at home began connecting the dots between our insatiable economy and the death drive of whiteness itself. Our country was rotten to the core, and we finally went outside to join with others and do something about it."
… and more worthy excerpts— a very good piece.
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"By this point in the drama, the meaning of the pandemic has solidified and groups differentiated by level of perceived vulnerability have emerged. These very same concepts facilitate the obfuscation of the deaths and disability that continue, either by hiding them from view or by rendering them meaningless. And thus the conditions for denial are reborn. As Rosenberg puts it, 'Has a heedless society reverted to its accustomed ways of doing things as soon as denial became once more a plausible option?'"
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"When Trump said that the pandemic would end if we just stopped testing for it, the public was rightly outraged. We were new to the pandemic, not yet fatigued by the inconvenience of caring for others. And so we could easily see through this proposed sleight of hand; we knew that viruses exist even when we don’t go looking for them. But this is exactly the policy that has been universally adopted under a Democratic presidency: almost every method we developed for measuring the true extent of the pandemic in 2020 has been eliminated, not because the threat disappeared but rather to disappear the threat. Just one reliable metric remains, wastewater data, and it reveals the truth: we are still in a biological pandemic, killing and disabling millions."
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Despite the years of lies, disinformation, and all the crimes playing out in front of our lying eyes - to say nothing of the trauma from the first blast of #TrumpVirus - SOME of us still remember. Some of us value #truth
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