I hate to be that person but I feel like you guys are going to agree with me.

The pandemic broke a lot of people's brains obviously on a very basic level.

But I think a lot of what we're talking about,

whether we're talking about the left or the right,

or just, you know, normies having reactions.

Like, I really, it all ties back in my mind

to the absence of an international left movement with any teeth,

and to the depoliticization

that comes from the whole world having given up on any kind of anti-capitalist alternative or horizon of struggle, right?

Like we saw the great revolutions of the 20th century degrade from without or from within and

so this obvious long-term solution that's obvious to all of us doesn't even occur to most people because why would it?

That's fucking crazy, right? Like I feel crazy for believing it sometimes, but it reminds me of a sort of a three-way argument

I got into the other day with a health care worker who's like, you know, pretty liberal,

like Bernie Krat or whatever and this

Libertarian friend of mine who's always had kind of

Libertarian bad politics except when it comes to Israel, but that's a different story.

And so she was saying the health care worker, she spent 20-20 watching people die.

Like it was fucking horrible at the hospital. watching people

at the hospital and not just old people that just sick people people who look just like us

people who were our age you know fucking millennials who were totally healthy before they got COVID.

And she watched people get turned away due to strained hospital capacity.

So at this point, she says she would rather let the vaccine refusers die than let them take up any more space in the ICU.

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