Better late than never, I suppose? Would've been nice if ~120K of our country's most vulnerable didn't have to die in the name of a bad analogy though. Folk economics has had democidal consequences.
https://twitter.com/GarethDennis/status/1368139481174470658
On the ~120K number, it is possible to quibble (cf. channel4.com/news/factcheck…). However, the biggest quibbles were always 'what even is an excess death, really?', an epistemic bubble that has unfortunately been burst by another ~100K excess deaths since.
The question is now solidly *how* to quantify such deaths, rather than *whether* to do so. If you look at Tory governance since 2010, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that it has, through a heady mix of malfeasance and incompetence, been thoroughly democidal. Thanatopolitics.
I could talk about the specifics of this more, both the mechanics of the relevant policies and the dynamics of their rationalisation, but I want to point out the other important fact, which is that these deaths are the tip of an iceberg of immiseration.
If you want to see why the UK as a nation looks like a sinking ship piloted by a bunch of idiots who cannot see the terminal gash in its hull, you need to look at this iceberg, and replay the slow motion crash into it that was the 2010s.
Look at how the Establishment not only perpetrated such an econometric warcrime, generating wide spread and utterly horrifying human misery amongst its putative charges, but also how it suppressed every political formation that tried to rally around its everyday experience.
There is so much complicity here. So much blood passed from hand to hand by backroom handshakes and shared canapés.
https://twitter.com/deontologistics/status/1362686783297884165?s=20
To echo the sentiment of a good friend: SHOW TRIALS.
We're going to need to do something like this for the world historical catastrofuck that is the Tories' response to COVID eventually, no matter how much they're currently succeeding in the polls. Might as well plan to take it back to the beginning.
Til then, cultivate a frosty fury, and sharpen your dialogical knives. Revenge is a dish best served cold.🖖
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