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Lock-downs reflect failure not success. It is a failure to contain & hence or lack of effort/resource to try. Nothing to celebrate here as we go straight to zero, people being limited to being immobile & act like trees 
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Those unemployed, shops shut, business out know this. From one day we operate (limited warning from gov like Blasio telling people to go on with their lives on 13 March or Trump in Feb down playing), to a shut down.
What happened in NYC is a reflection of failure not success.
What happened in NYC is a reflection of failure not success.
And the failure is at every level: Global (WHO & those that don’t question the WHO negligent recommendations), national (why is there a failure? President, Congress, CDC, NIH, FDA, etc), Governors (Cuomo & those that acted late), Counties, Mayors (Blasio for his poor judgement).
Read the statistics on NYC. Not just lives lost but livelihood of everyone else. And for such a world-class city to have such poor leadership is not something to celebrate. Lock-downs reflect failure to contain or abandonment of alternative solutions. https://twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1253812929075359746?s=20
Easy way out for politicians but not for ordinary people, especially the poor. Inequality will rise. Just look at the disconnect between stock price & jobless claims. One goes up as jobs get mauled.
Meanwhile, the media make fun of those that question the poor policy vs leaders
Meanwhile, the media make fun of those that question the poor policy vs leaders
They make fun of ordinary poor people (coming to middle class & white collar too don’t worry) that don’t understand what just happened to them. Why did mobility go from hero to zero overnight & how did getting a haircut become a crime?
Just think for a second, if ur entire family went from having jobs to jobless & if ur entire family went from being able to take care of yourself to begging food banks & dialling unemployment hotlines, wouldn’t u feel upset?
That’s how u rob people of their agency & dignity.
That’s how u rob people of their agency & dignity.
Of course, the US is doing more than most countries: unemployment benefits are generous (2400 more per month + state) & also cash handout, but some may not qualify & so if u were unemployed & want to be employed u are in limbo. So a sense of helplessness creeps in of what will???
Btw, the one thing that I despise the most is people making fun of Trump voters & just poor/middle people in general who don’t fall into their “coloured” people category. These are ordinary people & they are upset for a reason. Listen to them & don’t call them despicable & laugh.
Most of them time, they don’t have a voice. People ignore their ills for a long time now as they lose manufacturing jobs & they have high prevalence what we call disease of hopelessness (drug addiction, obesity, suicides etc). This is America, people aren’t healthy or happy. Why?
The disease of hopelessness isn’t just for poor/low middle class whites but blacks. Have u been to Baltimore? Do u know the history of manufacturing there & how it hurts poor black people too? I remember seeing people peddling on the streets thinking this city needs jobs .
In the series the Wire, all those people want to better themselves. Yes, ghetto drug dealers do. And they end up dealing drugs b/c that is the best employment prospect they have in their circumstance.
I was shocked when I saw Baltimore as a girl from CA. How come no one cares???
I was shocked when I saw Baltimore as a girl from CA. How come no one cares???
How come we have cities in the US like Baltimore & kids best hope is drugs. U must visit it if u go to America. It shows u decay. Hopelessness. And there are people peddling water bottles on the streets b/c that’s the employment they get. People want to have purpose not handouts.
