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I believe Covid is the first disease in recorded human history that humans have deliberately chosen to ‘live with’. Because that’s an empty slogan, it deliberately disguises two fundamentally different meanings. /1
We have of course had to ENDURE some diseases, because they’re hard to control, have no treatments, etc. Colds, flu, TB, cancer, malaria, heart disease etc. But we’ve constantly worked to control spread of those, and develop treatments and preventions. /2
That’s what ‘living with’ has historically meant. Enduring something, while trying to prevent, control and treat. But the ‘living with’ slogan for Covid means something fundamentally and historically different. It means to do nothing. Just infect, repeatedly. /3
It’s not a fight against the disease, it’s a fight against public health itself. Funded by the same vested interests who have been assaulting everything with ‘public’ in its name or with a public focus. It’s an assault upon the concept of the public itself. /4
And again, no matter how much these vested interests deny it, this is also an open, declared campaign. And has been for over 70 years. It’s right there, ‘personal responsibility’ to replace anything public. Never before has this lunacy extended to disease. But it does now. /5 
I don’t think enough have registered yet that once you remove all of the infrastructure of society in this way, all that’s left that binds people together is slogans. We live in a sloganocracy. ‘Living with Covid’ sits on top of an ocean of slogans, we’re neck-deep in them. /6
That’s what social media is like, wading through the treacle of competing slogans. Slogans are the only interpersonal social life that is now permitted to exist. ‘Stop the Boats’. ‘When the sun doesn’t shine and wind doesn’t blow.’ Spend time listing them, it’s eye-opening. /end
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