76ciology wrote:We all know how poverty is tied to life expectancy, much more in third world countries. And I think there’s gonna be a big asymmetry between deaths in the future related to poverty or other causes and deaths now with this current low IFR virus in Covid.
This, I believe, is one of the political motivations for many of the arbitrary measures we've seen, and the reason why the propaganda machine has been working overtime non-stop since the start. I don't think anyone is looking for people to die, but they are looking at their own gains whatever the cost humanity might pay for it.
There has been a massive transfer of wealth from the low-medium and medium sectors of society to the high concentrated capitals. People say "oh but don't you think XYZ Big Name lost millions of dollars too?" to which I say no, it's called dumping and it's something only big money has the capacity of doing. And they've been doing it forever.
If you're a big player, you have the financial and structural backing to withstand a reduction in sales,
especially when everyone else is put in the same situation. Yes, you might be "losing" money if you compare the revenue pre-pandemic to the revenue during pandemic (unless you're amazon or Uber, lol), but you need to take into account that during that time half the competition is going bankrupt. And guess who will absorb all that business once the dust is settled?
This doesn't need to be a conspiracy, it doesn't require people to meet in a dungeon and laugh machiavelichally. It just takes business people with lots of banking power - who know exactly what they're doing - aligning to what is for them a wonderful opportunity for a market takeover. No one needs to get together and make a plan, because the plan is the obvious course of action.
Coincidentally, we're seeing a similar takeover of democratic institutions and procedures by a de facto way of governing. Basic agreements, basic rights, basic procedures and ethics are all being put on halt because of especial circumstances. But what's the point of core values and core principles in society if you can put them on hold? The whole point of making principles immutable is PRECISELY so that no one in power has the capacity to create or abuse an environment in which those values can be set aside.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the change in public discourse. Two years ago I was lectured over and over about how companies own politics and how they're always screwing the people for their own interest. Then we have a scenario in which the potential of this goes up 1000x and all of a sudden... nah, they're all acting 100% in our best interest and there's no shady lobbying whatsoever and everything is crystal clear and all the confusion and backtracking and constant change in narrative is just a byproduct of the most honest science being conducted, which is not politicized at all since, you know, science has apparently never been politicized, it's impossible to do so in a world in which 99.99% of the people have no idea how 99.99% of the things they see and use every day work in the slightest.
Like you say, no one really talks about how the remedy might end up being worse than the illness. And you know what the worst part is? If/when the ugly starts coming out in due time, it will all be blamed on the virus and the people who didn't follow whichever coercion du jour. Just like parents blaming their kids for their personalities...
