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 2d 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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Nini 1d ago

@TimWardCam @KimSJ "The economy" mostly represents investments so second houses, stocks and shareholdings, that sort of thing.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE 1d ago

@nini @KimSJ Whatever it represents (and I get that there are different views on this) neither of the above questions was ever answered.

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Nini 1d ago

@TimWardCam @KimSJ You thought there was an answer?

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE 1d ago

@nini @KimSJ It's the first question I would have asked of civil servants if I'd been one of the decision makers (eg for the "eat out to help the virus out" policy).

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Nini 1d ago

@TimWardCam @KimSJ "The economy matters more than dead people, what good is that knowledge to the dead people? Well, they died doing something important which is protecting the economy."

Circular reasoning? Not at all, it's logical if you don't think more than two steps ahead and only need to consider the next one.

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE 1d ago

@nini @KimSJ Well, I dunno about you, but just right now I'd rather be alive, whatever the state of "the economy", whatever that is.

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Nini 1d ago

@TimWardCam @KimSJ You expect too much of the civil servants by having them think consciously about their decisions others have to bear the consequences for.

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clarkiestar

@nini @TimWardCam @KimSJ they aren’t the decision makers though. They provide info and can help implement minister’s decisions but ultimately the buck stops with the minister. I want to see prosecutions!