Emergency Covid action which was said to be unsustainable really was only the slightest wealth…

Emergency Covid action which was said to be unsustainable really was only the slightest wealth redistribution, towards low and middle income earners. ‘The economy’ is code for the old distribution. Thus desperate efforts were made to end ‘lockdowns’, to rescue the economy. /1 https://t.co/mVN8Yo8Yom

This was existential fear by modern conservatives that the public sphere was reasserting itself, redistributing wealth, as it was originally designed to do. They’d spent 70 years trying to eliminate the entire public sphere, post-WW2. Thus the massive pushback. /end