I support universal healthcare, but the main reason why I think it is unachievable in the US is because we, as a society, fundamentally do not care about each other.

This is particularly, poignantly true if we talk about how the US cares about and for Black people.

Universal healthcare as a policy is not going to mean shit if we don’t actively start treating life, and quality of life, as valuable and necessary and precious in and of itself, and not as something that has to be “earned” in someone else’s eyes.

In other, semi-related news, it has been *so weird* to watch how the discussions about how Asian nations have flattened the curve have managed to turn it into “Asians are just good at blind obedience.”

Like seriously, people are saying that. Right now. About Hong Kong! ABOUT HONG KONG!!!!!

”They’re just good at following authority.”

We don’t talk about the fact that many Asian countries have strong social norms of caring about and for each other, because that runs against the other racist perception, which is that Asian countries, being heavily populated, don’t value human life.

At some point, we in the West are going to have to take a long hard look at our dominant culture, and realize that the people running the show literally could not give less of a fuck about human life.

This is a thing that you ALREADY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN. If you didn’t know it before now, it’s because you literally refused to look when people *begged* you to believe that Black Lives Matters was in response to actual statistics which you could look up! At any moment!

If you didn’t look, it’s not because the statistics weren’t there.

It’s because you didn’t think they applied to you.

Racism is the tool that has been used to make people getting nothing believe that they’re at least ahead of someone else, and so they matter.

None of us are getting out of this unless we care about *all* of us getting out of this.