I’ve Tweeted about how the apparent disregard for the health of populations shown now by governments is…

I’ve Tweeted about how the apparent disregard for the health of populations shown now by governments is entirely consistent with working people being treated as we treat livestock. This isn’t an animal rights thing (though it is that too), nor just a colourful analogy. /1 https://t.co/R2CtI1m29l

When we replaced geographical territorial concepts like regions and nations with the idea of an abstract global ‘market’, at the same time we removed all personalised characteristics of the people who occupied those old territories. We now treat local workers the same way…/2

…we’ve always treated imported workers, and before that slaves. All interchangeable work units, from anywhere, globally in the global market. No need to take extra care of your workers if you can import fresh, cheaper labour from overseas. But back to culls. /3

Animals are culled when they get diseased, because it’s ‘uneconomic’ to do anything else. They could be saved, with better conditions, but they’re long past occupying anything like a practical, healthy ecosystem at this point. They’re goods sold ‘at market’. There is no…/4

…’natural’ habitat to return them to. So I think, and not just by analogy, we will see the continued culling of ordinary people, by Covid, because that’s what market-based politics does. Anything else will be ‘uneconomic’. We no longer retain a national right to protection. /end