‘Lockdowns’ reduced intimate partner violence. It also made many disadvantaged people better-off than they’d…

‘Lockdowns’ reduced intimate partner violence. It also made many disadvantaged people better-off than they’d ever been. The outcome of a greater share of our common-wealth going to more people. And why privilege demanded lockdowns end. /1 https://t.co/OaJmhEzF1V https://t.co/B2e3lIj3l6

It also supports the idea that violence against women is often economic in origin, due to economic forces on relationships. We should completely reject the framing of ‘lockdowns’ we’ve had in the pandemic. /2

As some sort of restriction on peoples’ freedoms. Or as some sort of unaffordable welfare scheme. Lockdowns were societies for the first time in many decades redirecting their wealth to help ordinary people. /3

Just as they did during world wars. Leading to decades of post-war prosperity. It was the flat rejection of trickle-down politics. /4

As Nick Hanauer says, business thrives when customers have money. Redistributing collective wealth towards customers (i.e. ordinary people) during ‘lockdowns’ was a reversal of decades of them being strip-mined by N=1 politics. /5

‘Neoliberalism’, political libertarianism, free market politics, small-government politics. All the manifestations of historic elites reversing the post-war construction of a public sphere. /6

Lockdowns were much more than emergency action for Covid. They were a rejection of over 50 years of political and economic bullshit. /end