Economic Coercion in Pandemic Policymaking

From the GBD to the Biden Administration

Pandemic Accountability Index
Grenfell: Why Voting for Farage Could Kill You

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What do #Poilievre, #Carney, #Farage, and #Trump have in common? Among many other things: an affinity for policies of #socialMurder.

Here's that exemplified in the UK:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5rV92Y9NPM

Feel free to reply with other examples from the venal illiberal democracies, with their legalized corruption, around the world.

#cdnpoli #ukpol #uspol

Grenfell: Why Voting for Farage Could Kill You

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I think the hashtags #EconomicViolence and #SocialMurder are important concepts.

And I wonder if a criminal charge of #StochasticMurder needs to be developed to address the actions of , for example, #FossilFuel company CxOs and Boards of Directors who know(or should know) that their actions will kill large numbers of people via known mechanisms. (Lots of other examples available)

RE: https://hsnl.social/@Bad/116713590766736471

I suggest we use “social murder” to describe the gun held to the working class head.

Social murder is a 19th-century concept introduced by Friedrich Engels in his 1845 book, The Condition of the Working-Class in England. It defines the premature, unnatural deaths of the working class caused by systemic neglect, exploitative living conditions, and calculated political or corporate abandonment.

#Engels argued that society and the ruling class are fully aware that their structural policies will lead to fatal consequences, yet they allow these deaths to happen for the sake of profit and economic convenience

The more things change….

#economics #SocialMurder #EconomicViolence #capitalism

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277953621007097

3 years ago today, we lost my Dad. We've never recovered from that traumatic loss. Dad suffered a premature death due to unmasked people in hospital, where he was infected with covid. That set off latent TB, which he recovered from in hospital. The covid infection he never fully recovered from. It damaged his heart, which didn't have issues prior to covid infection. That led to his long covid cardiac arrest death.

This is one of the big reasons I'm vigilant about masking up & get upset at folks who stopped masking & are enabling more eugenics in our communities. I lost my Dad because of reckless unmasked people. I have one Aunt disabled from long covid & in a wheelchair. How many more lives need to sacrificed for eugenics, inhumane public health & basic lack of concern for others?

We are having quiet, family ceremonies for my Dad's memorial, today ❤️💗❤️
Love is infinite.

#InfiniteLove #FamilyPhotos #ForeverLoved #CovidKills #MasksSaveLives #CovidSafety #StopEugenics #BCHealth #BCpoli #BonnieHenrySocialMurderer #SocialMurder #Father #Dad #Family #Love #Memorial #AsianMastodon #PublicHealth #BCNewDeathParty #BCGovernment #BCNDPKilledMyDad #Covid #LongCovid

"Social Murder"

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Amplifying the Violence of Incarceration: Victoria Law on Prisons During Pandemic - Speaking Out of Place

Today I am honored to speak with veteran journalist Victoria Law.  She is the author of such books as Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms (co-autho...

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