The Digger

Mensch59 here.  "Unemployment, hunger, institutional breakdown, and the destruction of social bonds are not symptoms of a virus. They are the indirect violence of class warfare. The pandemic is a convenient scapegoat for the largest upward wealth transfer in modern human history. Under the pretext of a public health policy, elites have successfully waged a counterrevolution that will result in the erosion of working conditions and quality of life for generations to come." ~ Alex Getentag (who also writes at The Bellows")   The Moral Austerity Trap How reducing politics to the moral simplicity of "saving lives" leads us to elite oppression. by Geoff Shullenberger December 23, 2020 Saving lives as a race to the bottom. (photo: Mike Kemp / Getty Images | photoshop: Edwin Aponte) Over the past half-decade, a series of political passions have swept across the Democratic coalition. Despite their intensity, these moments of moral fervor have tended to fade as the news...

  "We are facing something much darker than a respiratory virus. A great theft is occurring under the pretext of safety. It is not just the theft of working people’s jobs, savings, and property—it is also the theft of a meaningful life." Thanks to Starfire for bringing this article to my attention. The Great Covid Class War The pandemic has created the perfect pretext for enacting economically destructive policies. by Alex Gutentag December 16, 2020 A panhandler in Genoa, Italy during lockdown. (photo: John Perivolaris / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) On January 19, 2020, Washington state reported the first US case of coronavirus. By the end of March,  245 million Americans  were under stay-at-home restrictions to “ flatten the curve .” Mainstream news terrorized the public with  exponential  graphs, threats of a medical supply  shortage , and displays of  hygiene theater . Appeals to science were weaponized to enforce conformity, and the media portrayed anti-lockdo...