Two things in relation to public health, in times of Covid. 1) It was invented by governments, to keep…

Two things in relation to public health, in times of Covid. 1) It was invented by governments, to keep societies functioning. A government who removes public health protections is like a government giving its military slingshots instead of guns and missiles. /1 #covid19 https://t.co/A1fPDhn3Ox

2) The madness of removing public health protections in this pandemic is driven by the access to cheap labour from poorer nations. Western governments are less concerned about their own citizens now because the neoliberal project of the past 50 years replaced nations with…/2

…a globalised ‘market’. There’s no need for a leader with neoliberal beliefs to look after their own population, if they can access workers for the Economy elsewhere. All workers then become equivalent, in a global race to the conditions found in the poorest nations. /3

This in turn is the root of the massive propaganda push to ‘get borders back open’ during Covid, sold as giving people freedom back. it’s really about restoring the work of the labour hire organisations. /end