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Jul 8

I’ve Tweeted about how the apparent disregard for the health of populations shown now by governments is entirely consistent with working people being treated as we treat livestock. This isn’t an animal rights thing (though it is that too), nor just a colourful analogy. /1

When we replaced geographical territorial concepts like regions and nations with the idea of an abstract global ‘market’, at the same time we removed all personalised characteristics of the people who occupied those old territories. We now treat local workers the same way…/2

…we’ve always treated imported workers, and before that slaves. All interchangeable work units, from anywhere, globally in the global market. No need to take extra care of your workers if you can import fresh, cheaper labour from overseas. But back to culls. /3

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Jul 8

‘Capitalism’, ‘communism’, ‘authoritarianism’ are lazy concepts. Societies share so many characteristics, just called different things. Take the idea of a ‘planned economy’, compared to a ‘free market’ economy. /1

The central planning of an ‘authoritarian’ society is mirrored almost exactly by large corporates in market economies. We’ve seen how they increasingly take over entire supply chains, to get greater control over the ‘market’. ‘Home brand’ products are this. /2

Another way we’ve been infected by libertarian ideas is our gut reaction to this as somehow bad. That ‘big business’ is corrupt, scale is bad, let’s all worship small businesses. But big business emerges when you have small government. There’s a certain amount of coordination…/3

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Jul 6

More magical thinking. I’ll be glad of a 4th shot for my own protection, but shots aren’t the way out of this pandemic. Here’s an idea. Albo wants to emulate Hawke, with a business-unions accord on IR. How about using that same model to fight Covid? /1
abc.net.au/news/2022-07-0…

He can say politicians the world over have tried to beat Covid, and have had some wins, but the virus is still making normal life impossible. Far too many Australians sick and dying, and businesses horribly disrupted. Now is the time to get those at the front line to drive. /2

Get a broad range of expertise, business and unions to sit down together and come up with a map out of Covid, for Australia. No politicians for the deliberations, only for any implementation. Get the politics out of it, use the outcome as a de-politicised way forward. /end

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Jul 6

The pandemic is a war about the public. A ‘public’ is not just everybody in a society. It’s not a counting thing. The ‘public’ is about interdependency, about how all of the different characteristics of people and groups are required for a society to function. /1

A public school (in Australia) for example, isn’t just a school that is open to all. It’s a school where people from all parts of society mix and have to accomodate their differences, in some way. A ‘comprehensive’, as some used to call them, a more descriptive term. /2

The public is also not consensus, or any sort of uniformity. It’s fundamentally about difference. A recognition that differences both exist and are critical to how society operates. With public health for example, it matters that all people are healthy, no matter their…/3

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Jul 3

Sharon Lewin this morning, quite correctly restating that the national Covid strategy is reduction in severe disease and death. That's what's tying our hands. We need it to be a public HEALTH strategy, against DISEASE. Against infection. All of it, not just severe. #auspol /1

The reason we can't make progress against Covid is this initial national framing, where public health has been derailed and become a logistical hospital-protection strategy. Which in itself is not even working, if you allow mass infection, the hospitals will be overwhelmed. /2

A hospital may still function, sort of, but like schools it may be running well into the rev-limiter red, permanently. You can't run key institutions permanently in emergency mode, it destroys the staff. /3

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Jun 30

The ABC shared this study today, which showed a colossal drop in greenhouse gas emissions during the pandemic. This is fundamentally important in ways that I don’t think are immediately obvious. A thread. /1 #covid19 #auspol
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Those who have spent 50 years substituting a fiction called ‘the Economy’ for society have been extremely successful in painting our past 2 years as a ‘lockdown’. As a stopping of society, that had to end as a matter of urgency. But that’s not what the past two years were. /2

It certainly was a stopping of a way of doing things, particularly those things that involved guzzling lots of fossil fuels. There’s a fun joke that says you can identify a bogan by the amount their recreational activities rely upon petrol. But that’s most…/3

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