half a decade of trauma and institutional level gaslighting about the dangers and human toll of the ongoing pandemic have had massive effects on our society both nationally and internationally. The damage done by rightwing necro politics and openly eugenicist policies is ongoing and only growing. - ThreadSky

brainnotonyet.bsky.social • 52 days ago

half a decade of trauma and institutional level gaslighting about the dangers and human toll of the ongoing pandemic have had massive effects on our society both nationally and internationally. The damage done by rightwing necro politics and openly eugenicist policies is ongoing and only growing.

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It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

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brentr0n.bsky.social•52 days ago

They're one hundred percent going to say climate victims deserve to die.

iconoplasty.bsky.social•51 days ago

"They had decades to prepare," they'll say without a hint of irony

brainnotonyet.bsky.social•52 days ago

That’s the eco fascist way.

billygreg.bsky.social•52 days ago

If the results of the election tell us anything, it’s that Americans are the most historically illiterate people in the world.

clioe21.bsky.social•52 days ago

I don’t disagree and it’s been decades in the making, mostly intentionally

amanda182.bsky.social•52 days ago

Great thread, thanks. The damage done to ourselves,our families,our communities and our institutions as well as trust in expertise is immense. I feel absolutely betrayed.l

nslayton.bsky.social•52 days ago

It's our version of 1980s Soviet hypernormalization

brainnotonyet.bsky.social•52 days ago

Similar but with a far darker outcome. This kind of mass trauma and inability to deal with it only leads one direction historically and it’s not great.

nslayton.bsky.social•52 days ago

Yeah it sucks.

carlwilhoyte.bsky.social•51 days ago

I find the retconning of COVID as something that was completely unavoidable and memory-holed is so profoundly disgusting I find it hard to not scream until my eyes bleed

ito-antifascists.bsky.social•52 days ago

When covid hit and i realized how bad it would be, i thought at least maybe people will be forced to recognize how BAU is incompatible with basic human survival. The way the system just doubled down on 'kill grandma for the economy', sometimes saying so in as many words, was shocking to me.

brainnotonyet.bsky.social•52 days ago

It’s just wildly gross and shocking here. The brazen disregard for our lives all so the wealth class could grow further using our blood.

spoonsky.bsky.social•51 days ago

It is strange to walk through public America being one of the few who keeps wearing an N95…

jennpozner.bsky.social•52 days ago

📌

amorvincitomnia.bsky.social•52 days ago

Fascists hate it when we protect ourselves 😷 Here’s antivenom to their propaganda: https://bsky.app/profile/amorvincitomnia.bsky.social/post/3leljtob45k2p

sandy-o.bsky.social•51 days ago

Holy shit, thank you for sharing. So one of the most subversive things we can do right now is to not get covid. I'd wondered why infection was encouraged, but it all makes sense now, esp in light of eliminating SS and Medicare. We are livestock and they want us to die when no longer useful.

breitbert.bsky.social•51 days ago

Yes! It also helps people justify that those who are sick are morally impaired and “had preexisting conditions” so people don’t clock the actual risks they’re putting themselves through. “It won’t happen to me I’m healthy.”

sandy-o.bsky.social•51 days ago

Same type of justification as so many other things. "But I'm . . . "

amorvincitomnia.bsky.social•51 days ago

Yes. It’s true. Limiting total infections is a slam dunk strategic advantage against the right. Using a diversity of mitigations to eliminate infections all together by cleaning the air also addresses health risk related to climate change. It’s all one fight.

brainnotonyet.bsky.social•52 days ago

We have spent five years in a false reality that has disabled our ability to collectively grieve, to work through the trauma and to come back together as a society and as communities fully. Its impacts are profound, from a drop in shared social norms to the collapse of trust in public health

marshviper.bsky.social•52 days ago

Collapse of trust in public ANYTHING tbh

brainnotonyet.bsky.social•52 days ago

More Americans have died from Covid then those who died in the civil war, we watched as mass graves were dug and we banged pots and pans for frontline workers only to be told it wasn’t as bad as we clearly saw it was, and now we have all become the frontline workers. The gaslighting, the grief,

maxwalrus.bsky.social•51 days ago

More Americans have died from COVID than those who died in every single war America has ever fought combined.

brainnotonyet.bsky.social•52 days ago

The unending stream of propaganda from rightwing aligned outlets convinced America to give up and to walk with open arms into death and injury all so business to maintain and we have been gaslit to believe it’s normal. That the grief, anxiety and throwing the most at risk to the void were just the

brainnotonyet.bsky.social•52 days ago

Cost of doing business in America and it has had a profound impact on every facet of our lives whether we understand it or not. We deserve so much better from those we elected. We deserve to not be held in a state of constant trauma just so business can extract more.

julieinthewoods.bsky.social•52 days ago

Some of the “left leaning” news outlets were less overt about it, but still guilty of pushing the illusion of normalcy in service of the economy and to the detriment of the vulnerable. In doing so they created more vulnerable people, but hey, we had to unmask & fill those businesses back up.

cpucelli.bsky.social•51 days ago

Exactly, I am so tired of folks blaming the right wing when Dems did an absolute piss poor job as well. The rush to return to normalcy, the dropping of masks. Biden has blood on his hands as well. This isn't a left/right issue.

brainnotonyet.bsky.social•52 days ago

Unfortunately Voltaire was right: Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities. We are being made to be a mechanism in the machine of social violence and death all so the wealthy and powerful can continue their lives with minimal disruption.

injore.bsky.social•52 days ago

As Dr Pangloss says in Candide, we live in the best of all possible worlds….

mvandiverart.bsky.social•52 days ago

It's remarkable how much the institutional power in the world has ridiculed and gaslight the whole population for simply trying to defend ourselves and stay alive, and I am worried about that attitude as different threats grow.

mvandiverart.bsky.social•52 days ago

Every win for protecting our health was treated as a treat begrudgingly gifted to us from our benevolent overlords, and we are constantly being punished for daring to use it.

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