#auspol #covid19 it's amazing that the same experiences, repeated multiple times, teach us nothing.…

#auspol #covid19 it's amazing that the same experiences, repeated multiple times, teach us nothing. Symptomatic of us using our 'normal' life thinking to try to understand a pandemic, the thinking that actually created the pandemic. About toilet paper.../1 https://t.co/NMjo2IVCxg

This isn't 'panic buying'. Logistics experts have said (but aren't listened to) multiple times that this is the result of a too-lean, just-in-time supply chain. Another facet of our gig economies, engineered to maximise profit and minimise resilience. /2

Every time we've had a major outbreak, this has also been a 100% reliable indicator of what's about to occur. Crowds are wise, in the right situations, smarter than anybody in them. Google the research on this, collective intelligence, crowd wisdom. /3

Crowds have hugely supported strong virus suppression as well. What idiot libertarian political thinkers call 'living under the doonah', has actually turned out to be the cheapest, most effective and least restrictive of all Covid methodologies. Again, the crowd was wiser. /4

This pandemic will only be defeated when we finally realise that what we call the 'Economy' is only a politico-statistical construct, designed to rationalise existing hierarchies while bypassing traditional political scrutiny. /5

Pseudo-objective numbers that make society look like a manageable machine, just needing to be tweaked here and there. The Economy is just a tiny subset of commercial transactions in society, extrapolated to become all of society. /6

All actual wealth is just the people. Why preventing them from becoming infected and providing them with financial assistance has created an economic boom, where tried. Only a death cult talks about 'balancing' the Economy against public health. /end