Look, let's be real. The ultimate reason the economy "must" "reopen" is so that we everyone can once more be individually blamed for their own unemployment, desperation, etc in this coming depression. It is fundamentally dangerous to our system to have masses of people 1/2
simultaneously unable to work or make basic ends meet in a way that would suggest blame lies elsewhere than on them (whether in the virus, our leaders' failures, quarantine orders, market chicanery, etc), that is collectively experienced, and that might give them ideas. 2/3
Everything we're doing - IE tokenistic "aid" (which just funnels money back to creditors and landlords) - is just the barest minimum not for survival, but to ensure that we can blame people for their own starvation and misery once things are "normal" again. That's it. 3/3
OC the fucking Dems are turning to COBRA. OC the GOPs want to make being back at work by May Day (what an irony that!) a sign of patriotism. The faster everyone is responsibilized individually in a "reopened" economy, the faster ideas alternative possibilities can foreclosed.
"Re-opening" back to "normal" is being bipartisanly accepted and hyped as an imperative PRECISELY because it is actually totally unnecessary. It's presented as a matter of necessity precisely because it's actually a totally artificial order THAT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE THIS WAY.
None of this necessary, fucking none of it, and the people in power and with influence who are insisting that it is are either so conditioned and incentivized to not see that, OR they do, and they are fucking *shook* at the prospect everybody else will catch on too. /end
