Referring to this again, why has fighting a pandemic with an economy led to mass infection, disease and…

Referring to this again, why has fighting a pandemic with an economy led to mass infection, disease and death? We can see it here, just one more step towards stripping way every last public health protection. Now, even vaccines. The answer is simple. /1 https://t.co/io19FKPRnG

When you replace societies with economies, you’re really replacing them with a single global economy. Nations lose sovereignty to this global market. Citizens of nations lose any special relationship to their own governments, they become customers of global supply chains. /2

Public health can’t exist, without a public. It’s in the name. When we replaced publics with a ‘free market’ of individual customers, it was game over for public health. Now every ordinary person, anywhere in the world, is functionally equivalent. Just one more customer. /3

Meaning the inevitable race to the bottom. The public health action we used to reserve for developing nations (i.e. mostly, none) is now the public heath action we can expect for ourselves too. Our own governments offer us no special protections, they’ve been replacing us…/4

…for years with imported labour, because it was cheaper. Our wages have stagnated, because government and business, both slaves to the economy, decided long ago we were too expensive to employ. You can’t understand a pandemic as a health event. /5

People mixing causes Covid infection. They mix for ‘economic’ reasons in today’s world. It’s the economy that created and continues to drive this pandemic. And economies, again, have no public. So expect no public health action. 6/6