wet forest moon folkloristAug 20, 2023

a big reason covid misinfo has been so successful imo is that most people simply believe in capitalism.

to understand, let alone question, why covid misinfo is so readily promulgated by mainstream Democrats and their media, you have to understand that regardless of where this set lands on culture wars, they are fundamentally faithful to the current capitalist order.

if you accept the implicit hierarchy of capital, all the Covid myths make sense because they serve that order

Show threadwet forest moon folkloristAug 20, 2023
the myths —that Covid is mild, doesn’t hurt kids, doesn’t spread from schools, should be accepted as inevitable, is more or less like a cold now, is over, can’t be prevented by masks, is less important than education or economic activity, etc— are all easily disproven and yet they frame the worldviews of a majority of progressives, liberals, and democrats. Why?
Show threadwet forest moon folkloristAug 20, 2023
Because to question mainstream covid myths as a body you have to question everything about what’s driving modern society and most people are just not prepared to do that. Most people just have not yet gotten to a point where they can see that it is capitalism itself that runs the society and sacrifices human health to keep itself going. Half a century of perpetual red baiting has worked.
Show threadsidereal

@seachanger I've been saying for awhile now that most North Americans will not recognize covid as eugenics because then they would have to recognize the way smallpox and other viruses were used against indigenous people as eugenics -- which they have personally benefitted from.

Most people around me won't recognize that the gov't's covid policy is eugenicist because first they'd have to stop being in denial that their ancestors/they themselves are people who participated in a genocide.

Aug 20, 2023 at 7:43pmWeb