Yes this is how most people remember it, left to right. Governments were also doing direct cash transfers to citizens, homeless people were found shelter, evictions were banned and debts were frozen. We should ask why the latter didn't become the cultural story
https://twitter.com/number1shred/status/1892307677302120671
The biggest anti racism protests in decades erupted in the UK and the US. Because many people for the first time, had time. People were educating and organising. It wasn't a coincidence.
Adult and child suicides went down. For many people the boot of capital was off their neck. The right did what they were always going to do in response. It's the left that fucked it up, who failed to defend the gains, quietly complicit in the 'freedom' story. And here we are
If/when there's another pandemic in our lifetimes there'll never again be a response like this. People will be turfed out onto the streets, with their debts, to die. Because the only lessons this culture learnt from the pandemic was consumptive freedom + kids in school = good
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