Mastodawn

RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116300144161152058

If ever there was proof of the damage done by neoliberalism, this is it! The second wave (which killed 87,000 people in UK) was driven almost entirely by Sunak’s “eat out to help out”, and Johnson’s defying the experts to ‘save Christmas’.
It is extraordinary that you can kill tens of thousands of people with your obsession with the economy, and yet face absolutely no consequences.
Mind you, that’s nothing compared to the death toll that climate inaction will produce.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE 1d ago

@KimSJ And they *never* explained *either* of:

(1) what use "the economy" was to a dead person, or:

(2) what use a dead person was to "the economy".

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clarkiestar

@TimWardCam @KimSJ I’m sure I remember Cummings or Johnson saying something at the time about old people not being value units to the economy so losing a big tranch of them wouldn’t be a bad thing - don’t have to pay their state pensions and ongoing healthcare costs if they’re dead!