Re:Long Covid Appears to Have Led to a Surge of Disabled in ...
by erentz on Saturday April 15, 2023 @02:02PM
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I worry the impact this will have long term. Both economically as a lot are taken out of the workforce or remain but with less function. And socially as we have this bigger pool of people we need to care for (and likely fail to care for). It’s remarkable it’s been ignored but turning it into a culture war for short term political gain seems to have made any serious discussion about it impossible now. Just look how immediately comments about masking in this discussion were grayed out.
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Re:Long Covid Appears to Have Led to a Surge of Disabled in ...
by bugglebeetle on Saturday April 15, 2023 @02:30PM
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The culture war is a byproduct of the larger issue that legitimately dealing with all the consequences of COVID would require large changes to our infrastructure and social safety nets (e.g. clean air systems, paid sick leave, etc). Just with things like the housing crisis or overdose deaths, it’s much cheaper to individualize it all way.
Essentially, any problems whose solutions have the potential to alter the economic or political order are not allowed to exist. Much cheaper to sow division and obfuscate reality through the myriad well-established propaganda outlets.