The same people who think public health measures are ‘lockdowns’ happily deny people the right to work from…

The same people who think public health measures are ‘lockdowns’ happily deny people the right to work from home, to have clean air in their workplaces, and to move to more flexible work arrangements. They’re happy to lock you into these workplaces, to get infected. /1 https://t.co/hOSBNue72y

And they will call this demand that you return to your old work practices your ‘freedom’. While sitting on your couch watching Netflix was apparently the worst oppression, or kids getting extended holidays from school. You have to be seriously stupid to swallow any of this. /2

Like education, child care, health care, transport, energy, and other critical parts of our lives, what they’re doing is shifting the burden to us, as individuals. Privatising the pandemic, as I’ve said. We’re not living with Covid, we’re all individually now…/3

…paying for our own testing and masks, trying to coordinate all of our social and work activities to minimise chances of infection, including fights within families that this creates, and tension with employers. All because the collective mechanism humans invented to buffer…/4

…us against these sorts of threats - government - is now spun as the greatest evil facing humankind. As massive corporations swoop in to monetise the destruction of public institutions, because in reality somebody has to coordinate what we do. The mythology that ‘the people’…/5

…will all grab shovels on their weekends off (if they get weekends off) to rush out and build new hospitals and airports is so ridiculous that you wonder how it ever became a dominant political paradigm. But by beheading government, it left a vacuum of leadership, and…/6

…humans function by social conformity first, and everything else second. So alternate leadership is provided for the now headless corpse of the old public, slogans about how you paying for everything yourself now represents your freedom. /7

I read all the scientific analyses of Covid here every day, so important. But they won’t shift even the tiniest part of the mechanism I described above, society hijacked by the libertarians. And the libertarians themselves are really just teenagers in adult clothes. /8

It’s not capitalism or neoliberalism or any of those grand words that did any of this. It was our previously adult-led culture, with each generation playing a critical role, replaced by a mono-dimensional adolescent culture of high school. Popularity cults jostling for status. /9

Even the scientists do it, look at the number of scientific experts in pandemic management who utter the most obvious nonsense every day, because they’ve chosen a team and are going into bat for their team. 10/10