"The left is no longer fighting for the working class — they have lost touch with the struggles and concerns of real working people in North America, and have chosen ideology, empty mantras, and political virtue signalling over freedom, rights, and justice." - Amen. I am politically homeless due to this.
Your broad generalizations invalidate your analysis. Truckers in Canada are not the same as, say, Amazon workers in the US. Truckers are much less exposed to others while doing their work, driving alone. Amazon workers, on the other hand, have struggled since the beginning of the pandemic to get their employer to take their safety concerns seriously. Or do you see Amazon workers as “the privileged… the over educated.. those with political, corporate, and media power…”
Amazon Is Rolling Back COVID Protocols in Its Warehouses. Workers Say It’s Premature
”Meanwhile, warehouse workers around the country reported they, too, like Smalls, were fired after bringing up safety concerns. Linda Rodriguez, an Amazon worker in Colorado, said she was terminated after she raised alarms about the company’s “sloppy contact tracing” and lack of pandemic safety information for Spanish-speaking employees. (She filed a complaint with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment; the matter is yet to be resolved. Amazon told Colorado Public Radio Rodriguez was fired for other reasons.) News reports show that warehouse workers in Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and New York also said they were fired for speaking out about Amazon’s lack of COVID safety measures.”
You may be right about progressives and Democrats no longer serving the interests of working people – but wrong about why. Many unions want MORE not LESS in the way of covid protections for workers.
Unions demand OSHA restore anti-COVID standard protecting health workers
“Led by National Nurses United, unions are demanding the Biden administration’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) restore its national standard ordering hospitals and nursing homes to protect workers against the coronavirus.”
If you think working class people want more restrictions and mandates you really have lost touch. Working class people and poor people have never given a shit about Covid. They are too busy trying to live their lives and survive and take care of their families. This is elitist bs. The lockdowns have never been driven by the marginalized. What nonsense.
The way the labour relations system is designed is to ensure that unions do not represent the interests of workers, but of union officials and union staff. Union bosses are always co-opted into the ruling class in order to suppress the interests of the rank and file.
A hospital or workplace always has the choice to maintain a certain level of protocols. That they are lifting them, indicates to me that the workers were sick of them, or found them excessive or unnecessary. "Contact tracing" in the USA has always been worthless - up until recently, my state in Australia had 100% accuracy in contact tracing, which has led to nearly universal compliance with mandates, restrictions and regulations.
This is astute, comparing "anti-vax" to "TERF." While I would welcome a vaccine that works, I just couldn't justify this one, with 3-6 months efficacy (at best), and lord knows what risks. I've been damaged by Pharma, so I couldn't just embrace them as heroes in this new "war," which is turning into a war against citizens & rights.
On the obesity + metabolic fitness front, if governments were actually concerned with the HEALTH of Canadians, we'd subsidise fitness and healthy eating. Instead, we subsidize corn, thereby fast food, we subside Walmart, etc.
But the other big point that speaks to obesity beyond behaviour is ACE (Adverse Childhood Effects). We have tons of evidence that there's a high correlation between childhood trauma and obesity and other health problems.
We in Canada are hypnotised by our so called "public" healthcare system. It may APPEAR public because we don't dish out dollars at the front end, but it is NOT public by any stretch of the imagination. All policies are decided by the Medical-Industrial Complex. We have a PRIVATE PROFIT healthscare system, which we PAY for access to.
And because the Medical-Industrial Complex also run Media, they get to CREATE the "Demand" through fear-mongering with their own media, and then CREATE the "Supply" through their pulling all the strings of "public" healthscare policy.
I'm so glad people are talking about class again. This is the real social justice issue.
Yes!!!
"The left is no longer fighting for the working class — they have lost touch with the struggles and concerns of real working people in North America, and have chosen ideology, empty mantras, and political virtue signalling over freedom, rights, and justice." - Amen. I am politically homeless due to this.
Same
Meghan, how are buisness owners "working class" people?
Who are you referring to?
Your broad generalizations invalidate your analysis. Truckers in Canada are not the same as, say, Amazon workers in the US. Truckers are much less exposed to others while doing their work, driving alone. Amazon workers, on the other hand, have struggled since the beginning of the pandemic to get their employer to take their safety concerns seriously. Or do you see Amazon workers as “the privileged… the over educated.. those with political, corporate, and media power…”
Amazon Is Rolling Back COVID Protocols in Its Warehouses. Workers Say It’s Premature
https://themarkup.org/working-for-an-algorithm/2021/12/21/amazon-is-rolling-back-covid-protocols-in-its-warehouses-workers-say-its-premature
”Meanwhile, warehouse workers around the country reported they, too, like Smalls, were fired after bringing up safety concerns. Linda Rodriguez, an Amazon worker in Colorado, said she was terminated after she raised alarms about the company’s “sloppy contact tracing” and lack of pandemic safety information for Spanish-speaking employees. (She filed a complaint with the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment; the matter is yet to be resolved. Amazon told Colorado Public Radio Rodriguez was fired for other reasons.) News reports show that warehouse workers in Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and New York also said they were fired for speaking out about Amazon’s lack of COVID safety measures.”
You may be right about progressives and Democrats no longer serving the interests of working people – but wrong about why. Many unions want MORE not LESS in the way of covid protections for workers.
Unions demand OSHA restore anti-COVID standard protecting health workers
https://peoplesworld.org/article/unions-demand-osha-restore-anti-covid-standard-protecting-health-workers/
“Led by National Nurses United, unions are demanding the Biden administration’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) restore its national standard ordering hospitals and nursing homes to protect workers against the coronavirus.”
If you think working class people want more restrictions and mandates you really have lost touch. Working class people and poor people have never given a shit about Covid. They are too busy trying to live their lives and survive and take care of their families. This is elitist bs. The lockdowns have never been driven by the marginalized. What nonsense.
The way the labour relations system is designed is to ensure that unions do not represent the interests of workers, but of union officials and union staff. Union bosses are always co-opted into the ruling class in order to suppress the interests of the rank and file.
A hospital or workplace always has the choice to maintain a certain level of protocols. That they are lifting them, indicates to me that the workers were sick of them, or found them excessive or unnecessary. "Contact tracing" in the USA has always been worthless - up until recently, my state in Australia had 100% accuracy in contact tracing, which has led to nearly universal compliance with mandates, restrictions and regulations.
This is astute, comparing "anti-vax" to "TERF." While I would welcome a vaccine that works, I just couldn't justify this one, with 3-6 months efficacy (at best), and lord knows what risks. I've been damaged by Pharma, so I couldn't just embrace them as heroes in this new "war," which is turning into a war against citizens & rights.
On the obesity + metabolic fitness front, if governments were actually concerned with the HEALTH of Canadians, we'd subsidise fitness and healthy eating. Instead, we subsidize corn, thereby fast food, we subside Walmart, etc.
But the other big point that speaks to obesity beyond behaviour is ACE (Adverse Childhood Effects). We have tons of evidence that there's a high correlation between childhood trauma and obesity and other health problems.
We in Canada are hypnotised by our so called "public" healthcare system. It may APPEAR public because we don't dish out dollars at the front end, but it is NOT public by any stretch of the imagination. All policies are decided by the Medical-Industrial Complex. We have a PRIVATE PROFIT healthscare system, which we PAY for access to.
And because the Medical-Industrial Complex also run Media, they get to CREATE the "Demand" through fear-mongering with their own media, and then CREATE the "Supply" through their pulling all the strings of "public" healthscare policy.
It is policy incest.