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I really want the pandemic—the hundreds of millions with Long Covid, the tens of millions dead—to mean something. Like cleaner indoor air, normalised masking, funding for post-viral illnesses. Instead, we got mask bans, disability cuts and an anti-vaxxer in the White House
I live in a pretty progressive place (for the US anyway) and I was so blown away with how popular the "get everything back to normal" push was by a lot of people.
The capitalists wanted their extraction back. And everyone else blindly followed like “yaayyy no more masks, lets just ignore the continued deaths”.
Billionaires profited immensely during the pandemic, it was basically everyone else who didn't.