Prepare for the ultimate gaslighting?

[Leigha]

https://forge.medium.com/prepare-for-the...8ce3f0a0e0

The cat is out of the bag. We, as a nation, have deeply disturbing problems. You’re right. That’s not news. They are problems we ignore every day, not because we’re terrible people or because we don’t care about fixing them, but because we don’t have time. Sorry, we have other shit to do. The plain truth is that no matter our ethnicity, religion, gender, political party (the list goes on), nor even our socioeconomic status, as Americans we share this: We are busy. We’re out and about hustling to make our own lives work. We have goals to meet and meetings to attend and mortgages to pay — all while the phone is ringing and the laptop is pinging. And when we get home, Crate and Barrel and Louis Vuitton and Andy Cohen make us feel just good enough to get up the next day and do it all over again. It is very easy to close your eyes to a problem when you barely have enough time to close them to sleep. The greatest misconception among us, which causes deep and painful social and political tension every day in this country, is that we somehow don’t care about each other.

After reading this article, I wonder if the author could be right. Guess we'll have to wait and see. . .

[Syne]

The gaslighting is that all this economic destruction was necessary. That we couldn't just have the high-risk people shelter and the rest of us build herd immunity as fast as possible.

Yes, plenty of people have skewed priorities. Plenty of people value brand names and distractions. But it's a myth that a natural world, undisturbed by people, is somehow better. It sounds more like an anti-natalist screed than sound reasoning. This article leaves out how the media, repeatedly caught lying, destroyed its own credibility. Or how the Obama administration depleted our stock of masks without replenishing them. Or even how 40,000 healthcare workers have been laid off because state governments declared elective medical procedures nonessential, and many hospitals only have enough patients to run at 50% capacity (that is not being filled by coronavirus patients).