Elites at the World Economic Forum are doing everything they can to protect themselves from #COVID, because the ruling class know the pandemic is not over.
Meanwhile, they are pushing the rest of us back into unsafe workplaces to protect their profits. This is class warfare.
@costrike @luckytran This is the “boiling frog” principle
It came into stark focus when the Covid crisis began to diversify in May 2020 after a brief period of global synchronicity in March 2020 — this is when I noticed similar levels of grief and outrage in different countries, for very different sizes of disaster per country
And it became clear to me that the human capacity for emotion does not scale up and down with the size of real world tragedy
You can’t be 1000x more shocked
@costrike @luckytran And logic never meets emotion with a happy welcome —
Because when I pointed out to Australians “hey we’re doing pretty well here, check out the stats” people were understandably shitty at me and didn’t want to agree. And because we were hitting a B+ result not an A, they were right to complain. Ask for better.
(Nevertheless, we’ve sunk to a D grade in 2022 since the borders reopened)
@costrike @luckytran You know the (probably false) principle? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog
Sadly for metaphors, this one is dead right when it is applied to human emotional reaction.
@costrike @luckytran The way we’ve coped as an evolutionary success is to react to change not to state
So if things are cruising along, however badly … then they’ll historically be fine for survival of the species
If we get Nice Things, we’ll be happy. For a brief moment, for most people. (The secret is to stay grateful — church services sort of do this, but boy they’re bad at it)
If we lose Nice Things, we rage for a while. Not as long as you’d think, though. 😓
@costrike @luckytran Through history, some cultures were super big into building safety margins and elemental tenets of small-c conservatism
Sadly there’s a small leap from that into “power structures” and then the factors of guns, germs, warfare means that on an individual level, there’s no large group of humans that acts more rationally for the greater good — fear and joy still rule our lives and outcomes
Perhaps billionaire families all do a “survival training” though
@costrike @luckytran Returning to the OP then
You’d do worse than watch the behaviour of ultra-rich and copy some of their tactics — when it comes to your survival, I mean
When it comes to your contribution to the human race and history though, read all the other biographies too, if you’re going for a broad definition of success.
Exactly! At my job, prior to covid, it took an act of Congress to be allowed to WFH for just one day. Now that we've been WFH for almost 3 years, there are no plans to RTO. The company had the tools necessary for us to WFH all along, but they didn't want to give up that control, then covid struck. After only a few months of WFH, management realized that we're much happier and productive, employee retention is much better, and they're saving money.
@luckytran This is a teaching moment. What they're doing is demonstrating what should be done at all conferences and face to face events.
Then rolled out to health care, schools and businesses. We should be demanding this as customers, employees (and parents). And rejecting organisations and institutions that fail to provide it.
We really need to change the perception who the essential workers are. Or - radical idea - we could just protect everyone.
@luckytran While there may be some good ideas here, the fact that the rich do something is no proof that that something is right.
I personally have many doubts on the health repercussions of ozone and UV lamps.
@muzzle @luckytran
You’d find this interesting. Combo ventilation/filtration for indoor smog & UVGI for disinfection might be the key, imho.
Germicidal UV: a tradeoff between disinfection and indoor smog A Substack (blog) post with a first estimate of the magnitude of the tradeoff. TLDR: still uncertain, but GUV smog is likely to be a significant concern, needs to be carefully evaluated. https://jljcolorado.substack.com/p/germicidal-uv-a-tradeoff-between
@swhunter7
We have evolved to cohabitate with viruses, there is no point in living in a sterile environment. Disinfection was a temporary strategy against COVID-19 while we waited for better options and we have the vaccines now.
@luckytran these prevention measures strike me as actually "learning to live with it" versus the "learning to ignore it" that is being passed off to the masses. Is it a form of eugenics?
@ravencalling @luckytran @StillIRise1963
If anyone doubts this, look at cars:
Cars kill more human beings than murder in the US. Yet people live in terror of murder, reshape their lives around it, build a whole carceral industry around it — while blithely accepting the larger risk of death by car.
And that’s not accidental! It is a conscious business strategy! https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/episode-76-the-modern-moloch/
If you wonder how people could throw up their hands at masks and vaccines, look at the history of seatbelts.
On the streets of early 20th-century America, nothing moved faster than 10 miles per hour. Responsible parents would tell their children, “Go outside and play in the streets,” all day. And then the automobile happened. And then automobiles began killing thousands of children, every year. Much of the public viewed the car as a death machine.
@inthehands @ravencalling @luckytran @StillIRise1963
Thank you for linking to that article, its really surprising to learn that there were so much hate against cars in the 1920s, and how car manufacturers & dealers changed public perception to make people believe roads belonged to cars and not pedestrians.
cc: @frankie
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I listened to the audio version first! And thank you again for introducing me to a new podcast :)
@luckytran Thanks! BTW, I tracked down the UVGI tweet, and @SexyCyborg has responded on Twitter to say it doesn't look like actual UVGI or far-UVC at Davos. Does not negate your point about air filtering or PCR testing. https://twitter.com/realsexycyborg/status/1616022536298582016
I deleted and re-sent this post because I somehow screwed up your username the first time round.
“With the thread about what mitigations are in place in Davos, keep in mind that even if they had Far-UVC (and there's no sign of it) one of the main problems is that it's seldom being used in an effective way due to lack of guidelines and a poor understanding of the technology.”
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