If any nurses/retail workers/doctors/... are following me, I just want to thank you all for your service. I know you're overworked and probably underpaid, but without you, this outbreak would be even worse.
A big shout out to delivery drivers as well. They have to enter the warzone of panic grocery stores. Be sure to tip well where you can, because they may not have work soon until this starts to get better.
also to binmen/trash collectors who are on the front line for infection and often don't get the recognition for their work
i will say that this coronavirus scare has definitely revealed that minimum-wage service workers are absolutely instrumental for society to function… all the hoity-toity business meetings can be cancelled, the NBA can be cancelled, public schools and colleges can be cancelled, government meetings can be cancelled, but the checkout line at the grocery store can’t be cancelled… in a perfect world i’d hope that this was a bellwether for better treatment of workers like me but i know we’ll just continue to get paid min wage with no rewards or thank-yous from the world during this time lolololol
my brain, refusing to focus: hm… this paragraph… i do not vibe with it
me, crying: please… please just fucking process the words on the paper
my brain, acting like a dramatic bitch: it’s vibes are wrong. i cannot read it.
"The images of working people fighting each other over toilet paper shouldn't fill you with feelings of contempt or superiority because you're not 'stooping' to that, it should fill you with a profound sadness at what capitalism can do to people when alienation overwhelms us. A profound sadness, but also a rage at the system that produces this behavior, and a desire to smash it. Don't laugh at those people. Don't call them stupid. Instead, think about what you're doing to build a system in which scarcity is no longer an issue."
- drawn and written by Sam Wallman and Miroslav Sandev
One of my favourite headlines about the Corona Virus in Germany is how the participants of Big Brother have no idea what’s going on. They moved in on February 6 and haven’t had access to any news since then. And nobody is allowed to tell them.
have a couple medieval dance tunes, feat. my hammered dulcimer and me in my pajamas since I have no reason to leave the house
