Thursday 25 November 2021
COVID deaths and right-wing politics
2 thousand deaths from COVID-19 were reported in Poland this week (22-Nov.2021) another example for any inattentive to date that, as TorontotheBetter has previously documented, pro-market ideologues, all male, like Jaroslaw Kaczynsky of Poland, Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil, Narendra Modi of India Boris Johnson of England and other neo-liberal nationalists are bad for the health of the populations they claim to value. The politics of COVID, have been lamentably ignored in the emphasis of mainstream media on the medical technicalities and the sentimentality of the pandemic. COVID-19 kills, but mainly the excluded, aka the poor, and their deaths are most often attributable to leaders who value market wealth over social health. For a Better Toronto in a better world we need leaders genuinely committed to the public good. Politics matters always, but its life and death impacts are clearer than ever at times like the present.
