#covid19 it's not news or surprising that putting animals in crowded conditions breeds infectious disease.…

#covid19 it's not news or surprising that putting animals in crowded conditions breeds infectious disease. Antibiotic use in modern feedlot farming is astronomical, to both fatten, and treat infection. But are we seeing the link to our pandemic? /1 https://t.co/vRmK5YCNhw

A pandemic is a social and political event, not a medical or biological event. The patterns of human gathering and movement are created by our social and political arrangements. For this reason, pandemics don't just appear out of a blue sky. /2

They appear when humans are too crowded, mixing too much and too rapidly, with poor ventilation and sometimes also absence of clean water and food. Mass transport, mass shopping, mass work are breeding grounds for pandemics, as well as the habitat destruction they produce. /3

We should see infectious disease outbreaks as a warning signal, that the way we organise our societies is defective in some way(s). That our political ideas in particular need correcting. /4

In 2021, mass mobilisation of our populations, driven by 'economic' flow of people and goods, has rendered us sitting ducks for Covid. The days when the village integrated the many aspects of life are mostly gone, with suburbs now mostly parking lots for mobile workers. /5 https://t.co/6NO4v820mR

Not to pine for a mythical perfect world, but the message is that the more we displace people and animals and plants in favour of centralising economic networks, the more we will generate pandemics. Old-style villages were more resilient.../6

...they didn't even need to 'lock down' much, they were fairly self-reliant and that modality of life created much less cross-nation movement in the first place. A pandemic is created by the continuous displacement of people and other living things.../7

...for the political (economic) benefit of the few, who control the supply networks. The same people trying to convince us all that our own homes are prisons, and driving along expensive, clogged tollways to and from work is freedom. /end