Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
Stephan: This is all due, everything described by this article is the effect arising from the politicization of an illness, the conscious weaponizing of Covid by one party, the Republicans. It has resulted in the emergence of a uniquely American death cult. This cannot be disputed, as this article lays out. What strikes me about this particularly, what stands out, is the cynicism it represents. The wealthy deliberately took what should have been a fringe movement -- there were anti-vaxxers with the Plague; there were anti-vaxxers with the 1918 Spanish Flu and made it mainstream. What had been fringe was transformed into a death culture involving millions in which believers willingly enormously increase their odds of contracting and dying of Covid. And hundreds of thousands have. The peasants are giving up their lives in service to a White supremacy, christofascist authoritarian movement funded by the rich.
The other thing I take away from the Covid pandemic and these numbers is the collapse of the Illness Profit System model of healthcare.
The ballooning death toll has defied the hopes of many Americans that the less severe Omicron variant would spare the United States the pain of past waves. Deaths have now surpassed the worst days of the autumn surge of the Delta variant, and are more than two-thirds as high as the record tolls of last winter, when vaccines were largely unavailable.
With American lawmakers desperate to turn the page on the pandemic, as some European leaders have already begun to, the number of dead has clouded a sense of optimism, even as Omicron cases recede. And it has laid bare weaknesses in the country’s response, scientists said.
“Death rates are so high in the States — eye-wateringly high,” said Devi Sridhar, head of the global public health program at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, who has supported loosening coronavirus rules in parts of Britain. “The United States is lagging.”
Some of the reasons for America’s difficulties are well known. Despite having one of the world’s most powerful arsenals of vaccines, the country has failed to vaccinate as […]
The question for me is: Will the population finally realize they are being manipulated and stop participating in the process?
A good socialist system would be far better than this illness-profit system.