THREAD: COVID-19 pandemic has revealed that the emperor has no clothes in key areas. First, it turns out that essential workers are not only the medics, but everyone in the supply chain: drivers/warehouse/grocery/restaurant-takeout workers. They are the ones keeping us fed.👇🏻
Second, Western propaganda scapegoats, China + Russia, along with the likes of Cuba—from the former/current socialist camp—turned out better prepared for the pandemic than many Western countries. However imperfectly. Not just domestically, but in terms of offering foreign aid. 👇🏻
Third, it also turns out that while Western (for-profit, but not always) medicine excels in groundbreaking surgery, it has been systemically failing at dealing with a large-scale, predictable crisis in the most basic way, such as lacking masks, ventilators, and other supplies. 👇🏻
Now extrapolate how this basic lack of medical preparedness for a predictable large-scale scenario relates to the other myths of superiority dominant in Western societies depicted in pretty think-tank diagrams we’ve all seen. 👇🏻
The fourth myth is about the superiority of the cosmopolitan City over the "backward" Periphery. Cities turned out to be traps with interrupted supplies for basic necessities + stringent Orwellian lockdown measures—the stuff that kooky survivalists have been warning you about.
