@augieray End-stage capitalism is truly ugly.

@augieray empathy for the travelers, zero for the airlines.

@augieray As someone who has worked in a newsroom here's why. There are worrisome numbers about people dying from COVID every single week. The airline thing is unusual which makes it 'new news'. Readers won't read the same story every week -- something in the biz called 'news fatigue' (what people are reading is measured pretty accurately these days) -- which drives editors to prioritize 'new news'.
Sometimes, what most people will read drives some of the content.
It's not a perfect way of doing things, and publications can't report on every single thing (there is an overwhelming number of things that would be interesting to report on). But you're right about some of the important news not always getting covered enough.
I'm saying saying why it happens this way. It's not perfect. 🤷‍♀️

@augieray as someone who works in gun violence prevention, Americans have grown to accept Covid deaths as they have gun violence. It’s just another week.
But the media is driven by outrage - and the weather delays have resulted in lots of outrage.

@augieray And yet, surely some of the flight delays are b/c staffing (i.e., #SARS-CoV-2 related illness) as well as weather (i.e., #ClimateCrisis)

@augieray If nothing else, it points to the inability/unwillingness of our major news organizations to report on complex and ongoing issues.

@augieray maybe if for every 3k COVID deaths an empty plane was flown into an empty building the media might pick up the story.

@augieray Under the new thinking, if we can call it that, getting COVID is a matter of personal responsibility, whereas flying in dangerous weather is a God-given right. /sarcasm

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It's going to take something bold to right them, if they are ever to be righted.
@eeyam

@augieray sad state of affairs

@augieray the fact that the administration agreed to do away with the mandated Covid-19 vaccine for our military is mind blowing to me- as tax payers we will be paying for their medical care if they are infected- and I can’t imagine they will get the viral treatment options due to cost

@augieray no kidding. I work in a hospital. More people with Covid than flu and RSV combined.

@augieray In Germany, pension insurance and politicians popped the corks because of the excess mortality caused by Corona. The pension fund is full.

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"Our priorities" ... ?

It's the priorities of the people choosing the headlines that are showing, not ours.

It's almost like most of the headlines are being chosen by a select few people who are trying to push a certain narrative.

@augieray Agreed. Not only that, but look how many people have died in Buffalo from the same storm that caused the cancellations. The death toll h as routinely taken a back seat to flight cancellation.

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Letter sent to SoutWest Airlines
employees
read it and weep (or curse )

@augieray I agree

@augieray Yep, per our social shortsightedness and grossly fed Mar-a-Lago, MJT, red vs blue “waves”, Covid seems to have ignored such topics and continues to do what science has proved it would do; continue to kill. Thousands plus each day leave earth not with acknowledgment, but with the droning noise of “time to move on.” And why not? Certainly such noise is more fodder for angry debate than a 79 year old grandmother with CPD dying in ER room 17 of a local hospital, alone.

@augieray One follows the other as well but nobody who should be is willing to make that connection.