https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="💯" title="Hundert Punkte Symbol" aria-label="Emoji: Hundert Punkte Symbol"> so helpful to read a lockdown critical article from a leftist position, which is a perspective I share. Lockdowns, in my view, protect the healthy and financially well-off, enforcing working class ppl and vulnerable in care homes/institutions to bear the worst of the 1/4 https://twitter.com/jacobinmag/status/1307375849512013825">https://twitter.com/jacobinma...

infections -- when they [particularly those in care homes] are the very people public health policy should be seeking to protect -- until some sort of immunity is reached, while causing economic havoc and leading to an authoritarian destruction of community organisations, 2/4

and attacks on rights to gather and rights to protest. This also disproportionately impacts the left, which needs community structures to organise, and atomisation of communities is particularly destructive for the left and leaves vacuums which the far-right benefits from. 3/4

Have been surprised in the UK how willing the left has been to be so pro-lockdown,simplistically framing it as health vs capitalist economy, when in fact the fallout from lockdown is *far* wider, and we may be living with the consequences for many months (and longer) to come 4/4