U.S. Experienced Steepest Two-year Decline in Life Expectancy in a Century!
The U.S. has the lowest life expectancy among large, wealthy countries while it far outspends its peers on healthcare.
Most Americans have no idea that our lifespans are shorter. They don’t know that maternal deaths are increasing. Infant mortality is increasing. We have maternity deserts. Sarscov2 destroys placentas, leading to premature births and still births. People cannot afford to care for babies with holes in their hearts, water on their brains, missing chromosomes. Only the March of Dimes and some amazing Black female doctors are tracking the maternal crisis. It doesn’t make the news, cause it is is happening to women.
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
Also we don't even have to go back historically to see what it looks like living with poor sanitation and disease without a proper treatment and prevention. There are plenty of countries today that suffer from these ails and low life expectancies below 50 years old, too. One such country is not far from the shores of the US: Haiti.
Yellow Fever still exists and is still a problem in many countries which is why if you're a global traveler, you have a Yellow Fever yellow vaccination card that you have to keep with you in order to gain access to several countries. Cholera and typhoid still plague many low-income countries as well as other diseases that no longer exist in the US that used to be endemic such as malaria and lymphatic filariasis. Now these diseases are considered neglected tropical diseases because they only impact the poorest of the poor.
Affluent Americans are going to be so surprised when all these diseases they could've dealt with come knocking on their door over the next fear years, all thanks to the fossil fuels.
We had to get a yellow fever vaccine a few years back. They warn you that if your eyes turn yellow, get to an ER. You've got yellow fever. It's pretty rare, but it can happen. The vaccine really packed a wallop. We were weak for half a week. As it turned out, yellow fever was under control where we were traveling. The public health system was working at the time.
I remember that thread on Twitter this is based on. We stand upon the sacrifices of the our ancestors for the immune systems we have today and that alone is sufficient for living in a world filled with disease. We have the technology now to eliminate airborne viruses and bacteria from society. Clean the air, clean the water. Create a culture of getting tested and paid sick leave. Rinse and repeat globally. Stop encroaching on wildlife territories. Ban the wild game trade. Reduce international flights or at the very least introduce testing protocols.
It’s will that’s holding us back. It’s greed and it’s eugenics.
Part of it is probably eugenics, but it is eugenics by multiple bomb throwers assuming that they will not get killed. That diseases are beyond the direct control of anyone with their ability that grows the more common these diseases are to morph into new, more lethal or crippling varieties does not seem to occur to them. If this is not evidence of madness or at least insane amounts of hubris, I am not sure what is.
Well, the libertarian think-tank eugenicists are now running G20 Health agencies. GBD/ Brownstone Institute/ CDC dictate academia & media's canards. Cuomo's indemnifying budget poison-pills became ALEC's cut & paste LAW, verbatim in MI, PA, AZ & CA... so unmasked hospital-acquired XBB.1.18 now killing re-re-reinfected PASC-indentured uppity essentials is OUR "pre-existing comorbidities & poor lifestyle choices" tens-of-millions of us got, simultaneously last year, from 'asymptomatic' school-kid vectors. So it's clearly OUR fault, undiagnosed, untreated, RARE breakthrough infections destroyed immune systems, plum-tuckered from attacking endothelial circulatory cells & bridging synapses? It must be all that hippy-dippy snake oil (astute HCW & world reknowned epidemiologists were using with SARS & MERS) since we'd no miracle cures, as jet-set yuppies & PMC strode past TSA at Kennedy & we were told, "just go about your business, as NORMAL?" We didn't have to go back in time, or to 3rd world countries to see 32K essentials fed to a virus, to flip rent-stabilized hovels, W4 jobs & retirement savings. Cuomo, Trump & de Blasio fed us into a private equity ravaged slaughterhouse medical system, forcing folks to work infectuous, devoid usable health insurance, sick-leave, NPI, testing & childcare.
We were sold out to keep the death machine running at all costs.
As resources dry up, everything will go up in cost both monetarily and risk. Antibiotics based on penicillin are going to be gone in 2 weeks. Which means Z packs are right behind it. I don't want to live in the victorian ages with the added benefit of nukes and police robots.
And HAI, from bacilli, fungi & new virus will be hitting our BADLY depleted T-cells (kinda familiar to all us 80s survivors, huh?) DNC™ LLC's lethal SuperSpreader Tuesday & polling disparities after SC looked like they were willing to throw the election to avoid Medicare for All passing, at a time even fucking TRUMP was likely signing off on more "free stuff" & M4A would've saved money, along with Black, brown & poor white lives? PMC & yuppies here in NYC were saying, "it's only the schvartzes dying, now?" as NASDAQ jumped ~120% by 1099d gig-serfs' sacrifice selling WEF's Great Reset!
My wife works in academia and has to work with anthropology and comparative literature. General consensus is that this book is factually incorrect and quite racist as well. In this Reddit thread is an incredibly well sourced rebuttal against Diamond and the themes he discusses in the book:
I've been following the debate for a few years now. Guns, Germs and Steel comes out pretty well. It was an easy book to nitpick, but the overall thesis was pretty solid. It's like bitching about Newton or Euler because so many of the proofs are oh-my-gawd.
It's an old fashioned popular geography book explaining how geography affects aspects of commerce, civilization, agriculture and disease. His primary point is that people are going to make the most of their available resources which means development happens on different time scales in different places. I don't see what's racist about saying Australian aboriginals would have developed their own advanced civilization given more time before contact with outsiders.
I didn't find much controversial in it, though I can imagine some people feel offended by the idea that ports tend to be located next to bodies of water and make long distance trade easier.
Sydney, Australia had a cholera outbreak in 1947. There are now cholera epidemics in Haiti, Pakistan, and probably Ukraine.
Yellow Fever, or yellow jack, swept the USA in multiple waves in the 18th and 19th centuries. Greenwich Village was developed as New Yorkers escaped the swampy city below Wall Street. I saw a plaque in a Savannah church commemorating the three pastors the congregation had in a single year, who bravely ministered to their congregations during the yellow fever outbreak. One of them only lasted a month.
Measles and diptheria also killed many children. You have only to walk through an old cemetery to see the small tombstones, common in the 19th century but disappearing in the 20th.
Many of the vaccine deniers would not be alive today were it not for rubella, polio, smallpox, measles, diptheria and mumps vaccines that they received as children. I used to see many older people with smallpox scars on their faces when I was a child. No one used to argue about vaccines. You just got them. Some were administered in schools. Not one student opted out.
First, Ms. Wildflower, how is your daughter? You may have posted an update and I missed it, but I hope she has recovered and will be totally healthy soon. I wonder if she had COVID or another flu?
I was fascinated to see how the US and the world reacted to COVID. It took a while to know what it was and how it spread, but even once things became clear it became a political thing. The US had a crazy president who felt that keeping the economy strong would keep him in office. As always, it was power and profits over people. The people who could afford it stayed home, got vaccinated, and let those who needed the money bring them everything they wanted. It helped some of us who are over 75 stay safe, but still the virus was more deadly for old people. But who cares, we’re going to die soon anyway, and we don’t spend that much money.
We're still waiting on test results. She's feeling mostly herself but has a cough. Tried to do a stool test but the expired antigen tests definitely don't work. We're doing everything we can do reduce Long Covid risk.
My thoughts and concern are with you, your daughter and anyone experiencing COVID issues that took COVID SERIOUSLY and tried to act responsible. I must confess, my concerns do not extend to those that are so arrogant, righteous and proud of their ignorance.
I also remember that ridiculous Twitter comment. The fact that he made it indicates how little he actually knew about the subject. Humans have only been around for a fraction of that time, and only during a fraction of that fraction (agriculture and domesticated livestock) have communicable diseases been all that common. And during THAT time, as you point out, whole civilizations have been shattered by epidemics.
I'll recommend the book The Chlorine Revolution about the first introduction of chlorine to disinfect drinking water. It involved a water project in Paterson, NJ, a town founded by Alexander Hamilton. By the late 19th century, water supplies were getting better with filtration and settling tanks, but the new water system was still producing contaminated water thanks to farm runoff outside the city. The city sued the engineering firm. The engineering firm said to hell with it. They knew that chlorination was safe. Chlorine was used to disinfect water systems, but they usually flushed it all out before letting people drink. These guys decided to do one of the greatest unethical medical trials of all history. The installed a chlorination system. The city's mortality rate plummeted. Children did particularly well.
Chlorination is now pretty standard, but I'm sure some people will start pushing to eliminate it. It's like pasteurization. Even in the 1930s, kid's were dying from listeria they got from raw milk. The guy running Macy's even set up shops to distribute subsidized pasteurized milk hoping to save children's lives. Now, listeria is pretty rare. There's a local dairy that sells raw milk. They get a few cases of listeria every few years, but at least people know they are living dangerously and have alternatives. It's really delicious milk, too, from Jersey cows, but I wouldn't serve it to a child or anyone who couldn't deal with listeria.
Where is the anti-vaxxer logic? Well, it might go like this, ahh, there's a one in a million chance or so a vaccine will cause some sort of systemic malfunction or unknown infection, so obviously it's dangerous. Never mind that people are dropping like flies all around us, l think we have natural immunity since we haven't got "IT" yet, obviously.
Besides this self-appointed knowledge, these folks also can't even count. The vaccines listed in the story have saved millions from various diseases in this and the last century, vaccines that may have kept these anti-vaxxers alive or virus free from earlier in their lifetime, but now conveniently forgotten or did not have the benefit of knowing as children.
Even though people are of value to societies, if they die or become very ill due to their anti-vaxxer mind set, well, bye.
All this unnecessary hand wringing over vaccinations, so where is the logic? In many abodes in this country kids leave the home and head out for the day to do God knows what without any magical knowledge if their children will check back in at the end of the day hopefully escaping the other kinds of social malaises that await all of us out in the public space. The vaccine for these kinds of social diseases is referred to as education. Oh wait no, we don't want to fund that anymore, in fact let's start by closing down school libraries, that will stop any kind of social disease before any dangerous vaccine.
Say, has anyone seen my bible lately, I seem to have lost it, oh well I'll have to go out and steal another one, but it's all for the good.
Just a thought. When I clicked onto the list of likes, of those visible, I was the only subscriber. I’ve noticed a lot of brain power in comments to Ms. Wildfire’s—May I call her Jessica or does that come across as a little chauvinistic? I truly do not know—articles and it seems to me that with more support, this platform could evolve into a much more influential center of thought outside what I see as the bought and paid for worlds of politics, news channels and much of academia.
May be a silly thought but I thought I’d put it out there. I truly believe we need much more exposure to outside the box thinking like this that is only outside the box because, unlike most of our society, here we can look at realty not filtered by special interests.
I recognize that my vision may not align with the wishes of Ms. Wildflower and if not, I will crawl back into my hole. Edit: Dr. Wildfire. What was I thinking? Answer, I wasn’t thinking. Mea Culpa.
That was a good read. Indeed, we’re going back to a time where the working class was replaceable due to migrant workers. Now they hate migrant workers and want kids to fill that void left by us returning to perpetual illness and death. Davos safe is a fact. The rich are hoarding access to healthcare. The grifters, gurus and snake oil salespeople are trying to make a comeback. The number of people in my FB and Instagram feeds switching to life coaching or yoga guru etc is increasing. They’re about to be “the answer” to what ails you after a “Covid-is over” mystery infection leaves you desperate for answers. They get to fill the information void left behind by silent public health officials and the corporate owned media.
Manufactured ignorance perpetuated by the back-to-normal myth (a normal in history that depends on who benefited most) keeps us buying into health related capitalism. The normal that seems to be emerging is one where the plebs are perpetually sick seeking help from the ones keeping them sick. Like when someone is slowly poisoned by a loved one.
They hate teachers, this is why public k-12 education is under attack. Jesus was a teacher. When you teach people how to do things like fishing or, as you pointed out, *turning water into wine to sanitize it, or how to be kind to each other and support your community, they can help themselves and each other. This threatens the control of the rich. Jesus was crucified and his teachings used to manipulate and destroy civilizations that coexisted without coercion. We are being forced towards a much more warped version of that in the face of climate catastrophe.
We will be recycling money via the “economy” until the rich capture all of it and have control of all of the Earth’s resources to themselves and most of us are dead and gone.
It’s too bad so few can see this happening or feel life is just too hard when you have to do life and avoid sickness during your happy-time/off-indentured servitude hours. I digress…
I’ll stop masking when they stop making masks. Maybe I’ll buy us some full face masks for good measure.
We are on a slippery slope to self destructing through climate change & a mass disabling Covid Pandemic. When we refuse to adapt by using every available protective measure (like clean air & masking) we stop evolving & start regressing . Science is doing its best to keep up with Covid but can’t succeed unless we cooperate & slow down spread & mutation of this novel virus. Why has mankind become so stupid & arrogant ?
U.S. Experienced Steepest Two-year Decline in Life Expectancy in a Century!
The U.S. has the lowest life expectancy among large, wealthy countries while it far outspends its peers on healthcare.
Most Americans have no idea that our lifespans are shorter. They don’t know that maternal deaths are increasing. Infant mortality is increasing. We have maternity deserts. Sarscov2 destroys placentas, leading to premature births and still births. People cannot afford to care for babies with holes in their hearts, water on their brains, missing chromosomes. Only the March of Dimes and some amazing Black female doctors are tracking the maternal crisis. It doesn’t make the news, cause it is is happening to women.
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
Meanwhile, rich people think they'll save civilization by having more "genetically superior" kids. It's impossible to stomach.
Also we don't even have to go back historically to see what it looks like living with poor sanitation and disease without a proper treatment and prevention. There are plenty of countries today that suffer from these ails and low life expectancies below 50 years old, too. One such country is not far from the shores of the US: Haiti.
Yellow Fever still exists and is still a problem in many countries which is why if you're a global traveler, you have a Yellow Fever yellow vaccination card that you have to keep with you in order to gain access to several countries. Cholera and typhoid still plague many low-income countries as well as other diseases that no longer exist in the US that used to be endemic such as malaria and lymphatic filariasis. Now these diseases are considered neglected tropical diseases because they only impact the poorest of the poor.
Affluent Americans are going to be so surprised when all these diseases they could've dealt with come knocking on their door over the next fear years, all thanks to the fossil fuels.
We had to get a yellow fever vaccine a few years back. They warn you that if your eyes turn yellow, get to an ER. You've got yellow fever. It's pretty rare, but it can happen. The vaccine really packed a wallop. We were weak for half a week. As it turned out, yellow fever was under control where we were traveling. The public health system was working at the time.
I remember that thread on Twitter this is based on. We stand upon the sacrifices of the our ancestors for the immune systems we have today and that alone is sufficient for living in a world filled with disease. We have the technology now to eliminate airborne viruses and bacteria from society. Clean the air, clean the water. Create a culture of getting tested and paid sick leave. Rinse and repeat globally. Stop encroaching on wildlife territories. Ban the wild game trade. Reduce international flights or at the very least introduce testing protocols.
It’s will that’s holding us back. It’s greed and it’s eugenics.
Part of it is probably eugenics, but it is eugenics by multiple bomb throwers assuming that they will not get killed. That diseases are beyond the direct control of anyone with their ability that grows the more common these diseases are to morph into new, more lethal or crippling varieties does not seem to occur to them. If this is not evidence of madness or at least insane amounts of hubris, I am not sure what is.
Well, the libertarian think-tank eugenicists are now running G20 Health agencies. GBD/ Brownstone Institute/ CDC dictate academia & media's canards. Cuomo's indemnifying budget poison-pills became ALEC's cut & paste LAW, verbatim in MI, PA, AZ & CA... so unmasked hospital-acquired XBB.1.18 now killing re-re-reinfected PASC-indentured uppity essentials is OUR "pre-existing comorbidities & poor lifestyle choices" tens-of-millions of us got, simultaneously last year, from 'asymptomatic' school-kid vectors. So it's clearly OUR fault, undiagnosed, untreated, RARE breakthrough infections destroyed immune systems, plum-tuckered from attacking endothelial circulatory cells & bridging synapses? It must be all that hippy-dippy snake oil (astute HCW & world reknowned epidemiologists were using with SARS & MERS) since we'd no miracle cures, as jet-set yuppies & PMC strode past TSA at Kennedy & we were told, "just go about your business, as NORMAL?" We didn't have to go back in time, or to 3rd world countries to see 32K essentials fed to a virus, to flip rent-stabilized hovels, W4 jobs & retirement savings. Cuomo, Trump & de Blasio fed us into a private equity ravaged slaughterhouse medical system, forcing folks to work infectuous, devoid usable health insurance, sick-leave, NPI, testing & childcare.
Couldn't have stated this better!
We were sold out to keep the death machine running at all costs.
As resources dry up, everything will go up in cost both monetarily and risk. Antibiotics based on penicillin are going to be gone in 2 weeks. Which means Z packs are right behind it. I don't want to live in the victorian ages with the added benefit of nukes and police robots.
And HAI, from bacilli, fungi & new virus will be hitting our BADLY depleted T-cells (kinda familiar to all us 80s survivors, huh?) DNC™ LLC's lethal SuperSpreader Tuesday & polling disparities after SC looked like they were willing to throw the election to avoid Medicare for All passing, at a time even fucking TRUMP was likely signing off on more "free stuff" & M4A would've saved money, along with Black, brown & poor white lives? PMC & yuppies here in NYC were saying, "it's only the schvartzes dying, now?" as NASDAQ jumped ~120% by 1099d gig-serfs' sacrifice selling WEF's Great Reset!
Next you'll tell me I have to wash my hands before delivering babies. What nonsense is this?!?
Paging Dr. Semmelweiss...
Bah! This quack doesn't even believe in the four humours!
Required reading: Guns, Germs and Steel.
And his follow-up, ‘Collapse’
Honestly, everything he’s written.
Another great historical piece on a crucial topic nobody talks about.
My wife works in academia and has to work with anthropology and comparative literature. General consensus is that this book is factually incorrect and quite racist as well. In this Reddit thread is an incredibly well sourced rebuttal against Diamond and the themes he discusses in the book:
https://www.reddit.com/r/history/comments/6wkz6r/did_european_conquerors_suffer_from_new_diseases/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1
I've been following the debate for a few years now. Guns, Germs and Steel comes out pretty well. It was an easy book to nitpick, but the overall thesis was pretty solid. It's like bitching about Newton or Euler because so many of the proofs are oh-my-gawd.
It's an old fashioned popular geography book explaining how geography affects aspects of commerce, civilization, agriculture and disease. His primary point is that people are going to make the most of their available resources which means development happens on different time scales in different places. I don't see what's racist about saying Australian aboriginals would have developed their own advanced civilization given more time before contact with outsiders.
I didn't find much controversial in it, though I can imagine some people feel offended by the idea that ports tend to be located next to bodies of water and make long distance trade easier.
I felt it was the opposite of racist. It refuted many racists theories of why the people in some places are thriving or not thriving.
Sydney, Australia had a cholera outbreak in 1947. There are now cholera epidemics in Haiti, Pakistan, and probably Ukraine.
Yellow Fever, or yellow jack, swept the USA in multiple waves in the 18th and 19th centuries. Greenwich Village was developed as New Yorkers escaped the swampy city below Wall Street. I saw a plaque in a Savannah church commemorating the three pastors the congregation had in a single year, who bravely ministered to their congregations during the yellow fever outbreak. One of them only lasted a month.
Measles and diptheria also killed many children. You have only to walk through an old cemetery to see the small tombstones, common in the 19th century but disappearing in the 20th.
Many of the vaccine deniers would not be alive today were it not for rubella, polio, smallpox, measles, diptheria and mumps vaccines that they received as children. I used to see many older people with smallpox scars on their faces when I was a child. No one used to argue about vaccines. You just got them. Some were administered in schools. Not one student opted out.
I do not want a return to 'the good old days.'
This quote sums it up very nicely:
"Average life expectancy remained well below 50 for millennia. We didn’t get eaten by tigers. ---We got eaten by plagues."
Great article, thank you
First, Ms. Wildflower, how is your daughter? You may have posted an update and I missed it, but I hope she has recovered and will be totally healthy soon. I wonder if she had COVID or another flu?
I was fascinated to see how the US and the world reacted to COVID. It took a while to know what it was and how it spread, but even once things became clear it became a political thing. The US had a crazy president who felt that keeping the economy strong would keep him in office. As always, it was power and profits over people. The people who could afford it stayed home, got vaccinated, and let those who needed the money bring them everything they wanted. It helped some of us who are over 75 stay safe, but still the virus was more deadly for old people. But who cares, we’re going to die soon anyway, and we don’t spend that much money.
Please provide an update if not too personal.
We're still waiting on test results. She's feeling mostly herself but has a cough. Tried to do a stool test but the expired antigen tests definitely don't work. We're doing everything we can do reduce Long Covid risk.
My thoughts and concern are with you, your daughter and anyone experiencing COVID issues that took COVID SERIOUSLY and tried to act responsible. I must confess, my concerns do not extend to those that are so arrogant, righteous and proud of their ignorance.
I also remember that ridiculous Twitter comment. The fact that he made it indicates how little he actually knew about the subject. Humans have only been around for a fraction of that time, and only during a fraction of that fraction (agriculture and domesticated livestock) have communicable diseases been all that common. And during THAT time, as you point out, whole civilizations have been shattered by epidemics.
I'll recommend the book The Chlorine Revolution about the first introduction of chlorine to disinfect drinking water. It involved a water project in Paterson, NJ, a town founded by Alexander Hamilton. By the late 19th century, water supplies were getting better with filtration and settling tanks, but the new water system was still producing contaminated water thanks to farm runoff outside the city. The city sued the engineering firm. The engineering firm said to hell with it. They knew that chlorination was safe. Chlorine was used to disinfect water systems, but they usually flushed it all out before letting people drink. These guys decided to do one of the greatest unethical medical trials of all history. The installed a chlorination system. The city's mortality rate plummeted. Children did particularly well.
Chlorination is now pretty standard, but I'm sure some people will start pushing to eliminate it. It's like pasteurization. Even in the 1930s, kid's were dying from listeria they got from raw milk. The guy running Macy's even set up shops to distribute subsidized pasteurized milk hoping to save children's lives. Now, listeria is pretty rare. There's a local dairy that sells raw milk. They get a few cases of listeria every few years, but at least people know they are living dangerously and have alternatives. It's really delicious milk, too, from Jersey cows, but I wouldn't serve it to a child or anyone who couldn't deal with listeria.
Where is the anti-vaxxer logic? Well, it might go like this, ahh, there's a one in a million chance or so a vaccine will cause some sort of systemic malfunction or unknown infection, so obviously it's dangerous. Never mind that people are dropping like flies all around us, l think we have natural immunity since we haven't got "IT" yet, obviously.
Besides this self-appointed knowledge, these folks also can't even count. The vaccines listed in the story have saved millions from various diseases in this and the last century, vaccines that may have kept these anti-vaxxers alive or virus free from earlier in their lifetime, but now conveniently forgotten or did not have the benefit of knowing as children.
Even though people are of value to societies, if they die or become very ill due to their anti-vaxxer mind set, well, bye.
All this unnecessary hand wringing over vaccinations, so where is the logic? In many abodes in this country kids leave the home and head out for the day to do God knows what without any magical knowledge if their children will check back in at the end of the day hopefully escaping the other kinds of social malaises that await all of us out in the public space. The vaccine for these kinds of social diseases is referred to as education. Oh wait no, we don't want to fund that anymore, in fact let's start by closing down school libraries, that will stop any kind of social disease before any dangerous vaccine.
Say, has anyone seen my bible lately, I seem to have lost it, oh well I'll have to go out and steal another one, but it's all for the good.
Just a thought. When I clicked onto the list of likes, of those visible, I was the only subscriber. I’ve noticed a lot of brain power in comments to Ms. Wildfire’s—May I call her Jessica or does that come across as a little chauvinistic? I truly do not know—articles and it seems to me that with more support, this platform could evolve into a much more influential center of thought outside what I see as the bought and paid for worlds of politics, news channels and much of academia.
May be a silly thought but I thought I’d put it out there. I truly believe we need much more exposure to outside the box thinking like this that is only outside the box because, unlike most of our society, here we can look at realty not filtered by special interests.
I recognize that my vision may not align with the wishes of Ms. Wildflower and if not, I will crawl back into my hole. Edit: Dr. Wildfire. What was I thinking? Answer, I wasn’t thinking. Mea Culpa.
That was a good read. Indeed, we’re going back to a time where the working class was replaceable due to migrant workers. Now they hate migrant workers and want kids to fill that void left by us returning to perpetual illness and death. Davos safe is a fact. The rich are hoarding access to healthcare. The grifters, gurus and snake oil salespeople are trying to make a comeback. The number of people in my FB and Instagram feeds switching to life coaching or yoga guru etc is increasing. They’re about to be “the answer” to what ails you after a “Covid-is over” mystery infection leaves you desperate for answers. They get to fill the information void left behind by silent public health officials and the corporate owned media.
Manufactured ignorance perpetuated by the back-to-normal myth (a normal in history that depends on who benefited most) keeps us buying into health related capitalism. The normal that seems to be emerging is one where the plebs are perpetually sick seeking help from the ones keeping them sick. Like when someone is slowly poisoned by a loved one.
They hate teachers, this is why public k-12 education is under attack. Jesus was a teacher. When you teach people how to do things like fishing or, as you pointed out, *turning water into wine to sanitize it, or how to be kind to each other and support your community, they can help themselves and each other. This threatens the control of the rich. Jesus was crucified and his teachings used to manipulate and destroy civilizations that coexisted without coercion. We are being forced towards a much more warped version of that in the face of climate catastrophe.
We will be recycling money via the “economy” until the rich capture all of it and have control of all of the Earth’s resources to themselves and most of us are dead and gone.
It’s too bad so few can see this happening or feel life is just too hard when you have to do life and avoid sickness during your happy-time/off-indentured servitude hours. I digress…
I’ll stop masking when they stop making masks. Maybe I’ll buy us some full face masks for good measure.
We are on a slippery slope to self destructing through climate change & a mass disabling Covid Pandemic. When we refuse to adapt by using every available protective measure (like clean air & masking) we stop evolving & start regressing . Science is doing its best to keep up with Covid but can’t succeed unless we cooperate & slow down spread & mutation of this novel virus. Why has mankind become so stupid & arrogant ?
I’ll never understand why so many romanticize the past. Things are so much better now.