Our society equates "the economy" with the interests of capital and says all this shit about how "If investors don't make their money back then businesses will cease to exist" It should be "If workers don't feel like working then businesses will cease to exist"
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I'm fucking sick of the ball being in the bosses' court for these decisions "Management has done an investigation into the science and thinks the risk is acceptable" It shouldn't be up to any executive asshole in their office in the first place
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I don't care if the workers are all ignorant superstitious peasants who all irrationally think there's a plague because of an inauspicious astrological reading If they don't want to work, no work gets done, period
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and sending to people to work with anxiety about safety compounds the risks both in number and likelihood.
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They declared workers in meat processing plants “essential” to keep the meat products+profits flowing since early in the pandemic. Heeding science then would’ve saved lives! Now they use science to justify forcing teachers back into classrooms… er… education factories?pic.twitter.com/pFi0ZFUxa1
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Totally agree. It’s the same way I feel about people who don’t wear masks etc because they believe the risk is low (rather than bc of politics). They are deciding risk level for *other* people. That is unacceptable to me.
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It's also very irritating how folks are using incomplete data interchangably with very complete data in that whole discussion.
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Me being a liberal here but COVID protection was largely handled on the state level in Australia by governments from the Australian Labor Party, the bourgeois-liberal union party, and here we are
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