Mark Ungrin
The impact of #longCOVID on the workforce, regardless of origin, is essential context. The decision to ignore that in service to special interests means workers are treated as consumables - disabled, cast aside and replaced. Immigrants make handy scapegoats, but they're not the cause. #polisky 🧵:

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Efforts to blame immigration are about covering up those impacts, keeping the loss of workers from driving up bargaining power, and filling the gap with ever-more-disposable replacements (when they disable a non-citizen, they can kick them out and make them someone else's problem). It's a...

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...handy way to cover up the preventable mass-disabling event pushing domestic workers into unemployment. Oligarchy gets the labour, immigrants get the blame for the supply-demand imbalance driving inflation, and "taking" the job of someone who can't do it anymore after a work-related infection. 🧵:

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