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the extent to which we're allowing, encouraging, people - including children - to believe and internalise deeply distressing things that *are mostly not even true* during this pandemic is so disgusting https://twitter.com/vlal42/status/1358474514083028999
just imo it feels like reflexive media protection of capital and government - why is not every headline like about sick pay provision instead for eg - combined with a deep need for certainty, a need to believe that every covid death has a moral etiology that terminates in blame
you see some of this in the assumption that's emerged and underpins a lot of reporting and public health messaging: some people are covid spreaders and some people are covid getters. so you end up talking to people going to work as 'spreaders' though they're at risk themselves
our govts failed us so badly that we've stopped looking at covid as a natural disaster that can be mitigated in more or less effective ways, met with more or less humane responses. now every infection must be someone's responsibility. this is surely antithetical to public health
i really am sorry that there is no ideal set of circumstances in which a dangerous novel virus emerges and no-one gets seriously unwell or dies. but there isn't. there is only mitigation. and to begin to believe that there is is incredibly politically dangerous imo. im sorry
someone has silently quote tweeted the above, and of course i have no idea what they're saying, but it does put my back up because although it shouldn't, this does feel like quite a taboo thing to say?
