I think we’ve reached the limits of consoling with “I’m so sorry you got Covid, hope your case is mild and quick”
a lot of cases will not be mild or quick 🤷🏻♀️
The sympathy I want to hear is “I’m so sorry you got Covid, I’m going to wear a mask more often in public spaces and try to talk to my work/school about improving indoor air quality, the more people who advocate for system shift, the sooner we decrease how many folks are risking injury and death from this preventable disease”
same vibes as “I’m so sorry you were the unlucky one to get breast cancer malena, I hope you are the lucky one who ‘beats’ cancer!”
spoiler, millions of people will not beat cancer
what I want to hear is “I’m so sorry you lost so much of who you were to cancer, it’s not ok that we don’t effectively regulate cancer-causing chemicals in our society. It’s not fair that many have accepted and even joke about how carcinogenic our society is, i will work to change that”
and after all that we deny many access to treatment
my neighbor sat quietly at one point while we were sitting at his kitchen table and said
"that last dose cost as much as (neighbor) needed to keep his farm. scott walker promised if he was reelected, he wouldn't take obamacare funding."
my neighbor is now in remission
scott walker lost reelection in 2018 by less than a 1% margin
i'm so tired of so many of our lives coming down to a general election
3M contaminated my county's water. They settled over 4,000 cases nationwide for $10.3 billion dollars. How much of that will go towards my community? No one knows. 3M typically has about $4 billion net income each quarter. It's sizable for a corporate settlement, but still less than half a year's income for polluting our groundwater for... who knows how long.
But we need jobs. Factory jobs. So we need factories. We need to be factory friendly.
Ignore the industry-related cancer risks. The pollution risks. The worker exploitation. The injuries. The deaths. We. Need. Jobs. Growth.
Jobs is a dog whistle for corporate interests. But it's the calling cry of politics. And we need to call it out.
wet forest moon folklorist
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