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Post videos you genuinely enjoy and want to share, duh. Celebrate the diversity of interests shared by chapochatters by posting a deep dive into Venetian kelp farming, I dunno. Also media criticism, bite-sized versions of left-wing theory, all the stuff you expected. But I am curious about that kelp farming thing now that you mentioned it.
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According to Mao, the external influence of COVID19 on the western imperialist world order only created a world plague because of the internal contradictions between the "profit motive at all costs" mentality of the political economy and the fact that workers have to produce the surplus value required for such profit by being in a situation where transmission is inevitable as time tends towards infinity. There was also a contradiction between the essential nature of competition in the world economy and the requirement for cooperation between nations to contain/eliminate the virus.
As such, human life was sacrificed for the profit motive and the western bourgeoisie as a whole let the virus spread amongst the workforce instead of implementing controls which would make work safer but jeopardize profit. Furthermore, they prevented poorer countries from having the formulae for vaccines so that they could be in control of distribution and profit from sales.
Since it is more profitable to catch a man a fish so he can eat for a day (at your price) instead of teaching him to fish so he eats for free.
I for sure don't disagree that a society that prioritised human health could have dealt with the plague far more swiftly and efficiently. But COVID-19 was uniquely plague-ready by being both novel to humans and still highly infectious, so you gotta give the virus some credit.
It was widely known among epidemiologists that a coronavirus based outbreak was just a matter of time. A more serious society could have done way more.
With just the tools we had: The US had a program to distribute masks that was never activated. Cancelling international flights earlier, and actually quarantining cities, could have limited it to just a handful of cities outside of China. We could have distributed vaccines everywhere instead of enforcing international bans on vaccines developed by US pharma companies.
With governments that take public health seriously: Coronavirus outbreaks were a known risk; preemptive vaccine research could have been funded more, leading to faster vaccine development turnarounds when a variant started infecting humans.
With a more serious society overall: We could do planned two month global lockdowns once a decade or so, and eliminate COVID, the flu, the common cold, a vast number of unnamed respiratory illnesses, and more.
Yep. The postal service had a plan to give every family masks and trump made them stop