[FRIAM] the end of the pandemic

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This is clearly wrong. People go berserk on a regular basis over various injustices (the strangling of black men, lynching of trans people, bankruptcy from healthcare bills, losing one's home because they got laid off, living in a tent on the highway with 3 children, choosing between rent and food, etc. I just posted a socialist video game, made by a socialist media network, glorifying violence, that would not exist if *no one* went berserk over these and other issues. The trick is that there are many of us rich folk who choose to attribute the berserk goings on to other things, treating the symptoms without ever addressing the underlying causes.

To me, this pandemic has done us a favor and shed some light on how thin the veneer is ... the thin, gauzy layer of bandaid holding in the mounds of pustulent violence bubbling beneath it. We rich people are about to sit through a Come to Jesus meeting with reality *unless* we reopen the economy ... [cough] put our blinders back on ... so that we rich people can continue to ignore the 3 million deaths every year.

On 5/11/20 11:07 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> My point is that NO ONE in the United States goes berserk over the FACT that 2,871,000 people die – in this country alone – every year.
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