If you look at job ads, increasingly they publish no salary. And within organisations it’s often difficult to…

If you look at job ads, increasingly they publish no salary. And within organisations it’s often difficult to know what co-workers are paid. This is deliberate, to suppress wages. Short 🧵on how similar principles are being used with Covid. /1 https://t.co/qGzKzOD0Hd

Without comparison, there is no pressure on wages, and each employee is forced to try to negotiate an adequate salary themselves, with no idea what’s reasonable. (This is actually the process the government announced as their mechanism to drive up wages, in the last budget.) /2

Some employers even ask applicants what they think they should be paid, to test how low they can get them to go before hiring them, in the pressure of a hiring process. All the fun and games of N=1, personal responsibility politics. /3

To Covid. It was considered the grossest form of dehumanisation to refer to prisoners by number rather than name, in wars. But with Covid, this was the rule from Day 1. Almost nothing is published about the personal details of those who have died. Cynically this is said to be…/4

…a ‘privacy’ issue. A defence often used by employers when they don’t publish salaries. We see deaths reported, by name, every day in the news, we should know this is just more expedient lies. Journalists were actively stopped from even visiting hospitals to report on the…/5

…Covid waves. As the deaths continue to pile up every week, for now we’re still getting the numbers. And in aggregate too, not even individualised like prison camps. But that’s ending too, in another shameful capitulation from senior health experts. /6 https://t.co/5MgxHHp7Wq

Soon excess deaths will be the only measure, you’ll have to try to figure out how much of a problem Covid is by wishy-washy vague averages based on previous years, all conditions lumped into one average. Everything to suppress attention from this disaster. /7

Ed Yong, one of the few journalists with the brains and courage to still call a spade a spade in this pandemic, highlighted something even more disgustingly insidious going on here. By ruthlessly suppressing everything except the virus in this…/8… https://t.co/bKPg2XBUZI

…pandemic, we’ve ‘disenfranchised grief’. The millions who have died and their families have nothing to hang their grief off. In our rush to constantly declare the whole thing a sniffle, and over, we’ve rendered these deaths meaningless. Bumps in the economic road. /9

I Tweeted yesterday that 72 people died in NSW this week, of Covid. It hasn’t been discussed anywhere by our leaders. Week after week, this is the pattern. And soon to be much worse, if you lose a loved one, it’ll be buried deep in retrospective averages. This is us, 2022. /10

The real battle here is political. We’re moving rapidly to the same lethal N=1 politics that is destroying the UK and US. The idiot idea that there is no society, just individuals, with individual responsibility. A rich country’s fantasy, drunk on generations of privilege. /end