Some interesting comments from the commentary thread below JMG´s latest essay, "Tomorrowland has fallen".
Robert (#119):
I don’t think the messaging from hospital management (that Varun reported, #104) is at all mixed, merely veiled. Behind the veil, it seems to me to say, “Get back to work, you wage scum, so we can keep on sheltering in our luxury homes while you die instead of us. After all, each one of you easy to replace, and therefore your lives are worthless. Don’t you know that our lives are the only lives that matter?”
One of our neighbors was a wage-worker in the best of our local hospitals. As her co-workers quit, she had to do the work of three people. When she asked for a raise of $1/hr to compensate, she was rudely told, “No way!” The last straw was when the federal COVID relief money came in. Hospital management called the wage staff into a meeting to inform them that none of this federal windfall was coming their way; it was all going to be used to give bonuses for the hospital management. She quit on the spot.
Varun (#222):
To follow up on Robert’s comment (post #119), that’s pretty much what I’m hearing from the medical sector as well. I think the whole vaccince vs. anti-vax argument missed on very crutial development among the workers in the US.
Among the American workers a fairly significant portion believe that Covid poses a threat, whether that portion is the majority or the minority isn’t the relevant factor. The relevant issue here is that these people had trust in the leadership when they raised the alarm, and responded by rallying around the flag. Why? Because they had faith in the system and the people running the system, faith that when the going got tough we were all in this thing together.
What happened after that? Well the management class essentially lauded them as heroes, then refused to provide them with ANY protection. No financial support, no waving of medical fees, no protection against eviction, nothing, not one single item of support. Not only was no support forthcoming, but the PMC also openly stole the wealth designed to restart the economy. A recent study found that over 80% of PPE loans have simply been eaten by corporate welfare queens.
Then there’s been the subtle shift in the propaganda system that is still claiming that the virus is a threat, banning social gatherings, locking down the economy, and then the CDC releases new guidelines that REDUCES quarantine to five days. Basically telling workers “yes, we still consider this a threat, but get back to work you low-life scum.” This sentiment is not lost on the workers who rallied around the flag, even among the pro-vax crowd that I hang out with, this is now a subject of discussion at parties.
It is my belief that the PMC is shedding support not because of the vaccine mandates, but because they have nothing to support their own foot soldiers. Literally the people who believe in the system and would have supported it during the coming storms, are told that their lives aren’t worth anything.
I fully accept that this pandemic isn’t as lethal as the media claims, but plenty of people have just realized “hey, what happens when a real disaster happens?”
This is a disaster for our would-be overlords, because sooner or later we will hit a critical mass of workers who are going to displace their anger by stringing up the leaders who abandoned them during the crisis.
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