Thursday 9 December 2021
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On COVID-19 and inequality
It's been 2 years since the COVID19 pandemic started and resistance is growing. The well-off, and some governments have the financial resources in reserve to survive the crisis while their media focus on occasional “hard luck” stories. But for the poor, especially those in poor countries without economic shelter room the reality is much grimmer. Social unrest and resistance are the necessary results. Over the last two years strikes, demos and protests have doubled, with 5000+ turning violent as pre-existing inequalities are intensified in the eye of the pandemic’s economic storm. Citizens are taking in countries large, like Portugal and France and small, like the Solomon Islands. Activists and civil organizations such as farm based Agrounia, are stepping up their actions in response and their resistance is being penalized. A Polish Amazon worker who postered her workplace about working conditions was recently fired. Pandemics are bad for the majority but they are worst for the worst off. The story must be retold loudly as mainstream media skim surfaces and ignore the deep story. Pandemics only intensify pre-existing conditions of inequality. Thanks to TorontotheBetter's European correspondent for news about developments in Poland and beyond. For news about more Amazon firings see:Amazon workers stage 'sick out' rally to push for warehouse changes (nbcnews.com)
