Literally plenty of capitalist countries have effectively dealt with COVID-19 but we’re just fucking stuck with it because our government doesn’t have the fucking will to do what China or Vietnam or New Zealand does.
Just take away my fucking freedoms for like a month so I can have a fucking life again goddammit. I’m already stuck in my fucking home.
The United States has as many people die of COVID-19 every two to three days as there have been TOTAL reported deaths from COVID-19 in China (5600). I don’t care if you think it’s an “undercount” or whatever. Literally all of these stats are biased towards being undercounted. The USA has over 800k dead. We will absolutely reach over a million soon. Say China’s count is twice the reported amount (which is a ridiculous assumption btw! The numbers are easily verified!), that’s still NOTHING like the U.S. which has around ONE BILLION fewer people. Just fucking lock this shit down and have food delivered like they do in China and Vietnam holy fucking shit.
China would have to be hiding 200 deaths for every death reported to even get close to the US lol.
Turns out if ppl don’t breathe the same air, they don’t spread airborne respiratory illnesses, who could’ve guessed 🤔🤔🤔
“In our civilized societies, we are rich. Why then are the many poor? Why this painful drudgery for the masses? Why, even to the best paid workman, this uncertainty for tomorrow, in the midst of all the wealth inherited from the past, and in spite of the powerful means of production, which could ensure comfort to all, in return for a few hours of daily toil?”
— Peter Kropotkin, The Conquest of Bread (via philosophybits)
