The main roadblock to beating Covid globally is the hyper-narrowing of society’s focus to one statistical…

The main roadblock to beating Covid globally is the hyper-narrowing of society’s focus to one statistical indicator, economic growth. Where ephemeral small businesses boom and bust inside 5 years, and human ambition is restricted to building new roads to connect new property…/1 https://t.co/HQgI8wCkKi

…developments (to enrich developers) to centres of work. To ferry people to and from meaningless jobs they mostly hate. We had to get rid of all those pubic heath measures because they got in the way of us sitting in traffic every day, to get to a workplace that we can’t…/2

…wait to retire from. Can anybody name even one great collective project our societies were working on, that we were eager to get back to out of the pandemic? Or were we all just desperate to relieve meaningless working lives with 4 weeks (if we’re lucky) annual leave…/3

…in a resort somewhere overrun with similarly bored rich tourists, packed into the cheap end of sardine can airliners to get there and back? Doesn’t anybody else feel like we couldn’t fight Covid, because the farmer wanted us back laying eggs? Our lockdowns…/4

…that locked down mostly workplaces, our laying cages. Our free range taste of freedom from the daily grind, it ran the risk that we’d all stop shitting out economic eggs? /end