Dude was chill, growing and using cannabis in his 80s. A master gardener, he kept cacti alive for 40 years in Canada through nasty winters. He was kind, generous intelligent and thoughtful.
His son caught covid at his workplace, and passed it on to my FIL. FIL was hospitalized around December solstice due to complications of that covid, and other non lethal problems He passed on a couple of days ago.
He did not die, he was killed by capitalism.
Capitalism requires people to work or starve, so they have to be on the job spreading diseases when they should be at home fighting them.
Capitalism rewards the pharmaceutical companies that decided it was more profitable to treat Covid than to eliminate it, attenuate it rather than eradicate it.
The oligarchs that use capitalism to enrich themselves turned precautionary measures that would slow the spread of Covid into ammo for the culture wars that keep the working class fighting each other instead of slitting the throats of the oligarchs.
Yes, I am very angry.
If you want a proper term for it, if you aren’t already aware, Engels calls this social murder.
When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society places hundreds of proletarians in such a position that they inevitably meet a too early and an unnatural death, one which is quite as much a death by violence as that by the sword or bullet; when it deprives thousands of the necessaries of life, places them under conditions in which they cannot live – forces them, through the strong arm of the law, to remain in such conditions until that death ensues which is the inevitable consequence – knows that these thousands of victims must perish, and yet permits these conditions to remain, its deed is murder just as surely as the deed of the single individual; disguised, malicious murder, murder against which none can defend himself, which does not seem what it is, because no man sees the murderer, because the death of the victim seems a natural one, since the offence is more one of omission than of commission. But murder it remains.
Rest in piece, shit fucking sucks.
Fuck whoever in western society normalized the idea that you are only responsible for your actions and not your inaction.
If you press libs on the mass slaughter of the elderly and disabled required by our ‘public health’ response, some of the more depraved ones will think to remark on how this is actually improving the long-term viability of social security.
And yet it’s unthinkable to simply budget some more funds into the Social Security stockpile.
What, and not give the military 780 billion dollars annually? Unfeasible.
What if we need to fight a war we aren’t presently (actively) fighting?
Every death from COVID in the US since Biden took office can and should be blamed on him personally and I genuinely want him to be tried for hundreds of thousands of individual cases of first degree murder. I then want him drawn and fucking quartered on live TV.
I’m so sorry for your loss. He did not die, he was murdered, and his murderer will almost certainly never see justice.
Literally that fake Stalin quote about the death of one man vs the deaths of a million, disgusting world.
I’m so sorry for your loss, comrade. Every life taken by covid is another crime to pile at the feet of those in power when their time comes.
i sincerely hope we do. there’s nothing we can give the dead except for reverence and revenge, and i am pretty fucking tired of how unbalanced the scale is
