[FRIAM] the end of the pandemic

[Frank Wimberly]

If old people don't eventually die or if babies stop being born in large
enough numbers Social Security is doomed.

Frank

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 12:22 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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