10 karma · joined December 23, 2021
Just imagine it would be okay to stay at home as a restaurant worker, not fearing to lose your job and knowing that nothing changes in a bad way when the pandemic is over.
We can easily afford this as a society. We just don't.
We have 'only' 5 Million covid death while the estimate for spanish flu is at 50 Million.
1920 we had way less people, way less/none cheap air travel, fast transport.
We have never created a vaccine that fast and responded on such a global level together.
Interesting thought.
For what do we optimize actually? For the working class? For human lives?
You know what would have not been an issue if we would talk to each other and would find a global compromise independent of capitalism?
A pandemic.
We would just take our knowledge and resources we have and transform it temporarily in a setup in were its not an issue to work from home, work less for a year or two, have family and friend clusters were subgroups can visit each other without spreading virusus, high vaccine rate, masks everywere.
I don't mind discussing IF our society should throw older people under the bus, but only if we accept that we did a lot of stuff shitty before and we could do it much better.
But also lets not forget one thing: This is a pandemic. Our first pandemic in a modern time, unique to our society.
We have handled it much better than 100 years ago.
Ignore my comment though if you would normally heat by electricity but you use an umlaut so i assume you are a german as well.
Just a few days/weeks ago we had an extreme price hike due to high demand. High demand should only come from consuming energy in a usefull way. Mining your shitcoins for nothing is not helping at all.
You still consume energy which wouldn't need to be consumed as we do have other and much more energy friendlih systems for transaction security.
You are basically an american who drives the biggest pickup truck available and using oekofuel and state its now okay to do this.