motonoggin Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Nine Thoughts On COVID-19 And What’s Coming This gig is kinda weird at the moment. I write about what’s going on in the world for a living, and there’s certainly plenty going on in the world to be written about. But also there’s this acute awareness that anything I write about today is going to look petty and insignificant in the very near future. I mean, we’re in the first moments of an unfolding pandemic which, from what I can tell just looking at the numbers, is about to change the world in some pretty significant ways. Governmental faceplant after governmental faceplant after missed opportunity after missed opportunity all around the world appears to have set us on a trajectory toward overburdened healthcare systems, severe economic downturns, and, of course, mass deaths. And maybe chaos. And maybe healing. And maybe, when all is said and done, a total restructuring of power and the way we do things. Standing on the precipice of that, how the hell am I supposed to write about how Bernie didn’t go hard enough at Biden in the last debate or whatever? So many of the arguments we’ve been placing so much importance on lately could easily look irrelevant in a matter of weeks. Anyway, here are nine thoughts on COVID-19 and what’s coming. 1 — Everyone in conspiracy circles has strong opinions about what’s going on, so anything I could possibly say about this is going to get a ton of pushback from some faction or another. That’s fine. In my opinion the fears that the ruling class will seize this opportunity to advance preexisting authoritarian agendas are well-founded, and people are right to have suspicions about the official narrative on the origins of the virus, but people who are still saying the whole thing is fake from top to bottom and it’s just another flu/no big deal have been proved wrong by facts in evidence. People should minimize social contact to avoid overburdening healthcare systems and thereby killing people. No matter how certain you are that this is all fake, you’re not certain enough to justify needlessly risking lives. 2 — Google-owned YouTube has just announced that they’re going to be censoring a lot more videos during the pandemic, citing the need to rely on automated censorship as they scale back workers’ presence at the office. No attempt has been made to explain why YouTube staff can’t just review the material working from home. Definitely worth keeping an eye on; if widespread authoritarian measures are going to be implemented during this time, increasing internet censorship will likely be the first step. 3 — I think this is going to hit America much harder than other countries, unfortunately. Combine a literal joke of a healthcare system with a president who up until just today has been dismissive of the threat the virus poses, the fact that the majority of Americans can’t afford a $1,000 emergency expense at a time of mounting layoffs while being chronically uninsured or underinsured, an inability to make anything happen without massive corporations voluntarily going against their own profit margins, a culture of rugged individualism with a reflexive distaste for collectivist organization for the good of the whole, and a highly religious population with many preachers telling their underinsured parishioners to demonstrate their faith by gathering at the megachurch and shaking hands with everyone, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/nine-thoughts-on-covid-19-and-whats-coming-65f8ed26b1df Worth the click to read it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rod Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Fascism is coming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AKIQPilot Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 Yea that was pretty good. This is the time when China will take our place on the world stage. I didn't expect it to come so quick. Thanks for posting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snopro31 Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 How come covid 19 is done in China? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted March 17, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted March 17, 2020 No thanks. Caitlin Johnstone Follow Rogue journalist. Bogan socialist. Anarcho-psychonaut. Guerrilla poet. Utopia prepper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry ginger Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 i saw some fake news alerts the last few days on social media i had never seen before. looks like they are letting their AI do the postings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
motonoggin Posted March 17, 2020 Author Share Posted March 17, 2020 10 minutes ago, Highmark said: No thanks. Caitlin Johnstone Follow Rogue journalist. Bogan socialist. Anarcho-psychonaut. Guerrilla poet. Utopia prepper. You can't handle the truth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revkevsdi Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 14 minutes ago, Highmark said: No thanks. Caitlin Johnstone Follow Rogue journalist. Bogan socialist. Anarcho-psychonaut. Guerrilla poet. Utopia prepper. I’d like to hear her poem about Harambe. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Platinum Contributing Member Highmark Posted March 17, 2020 Platinum Contributing Member Share Posted March 17, 2020 8 minutes ago, motonoggin said: You can't handle the truth Dude....her conspiracies are nothing unique. I jokingly posted one and got ridiculed for it. Do you think the virus was spread intentionally? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frenchy Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 She made some good points and some absolutely ridiculous ones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zambroski Posted March 17, 2020 Share Posted March 17, 2020 3 minutes ago, frenchy said: She made some good points and some absolutely ridiculous ones. For me, they cancel each other out. Throw enough net out and you are sure to catch something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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