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Don’t just blame the anti-vaxxers, blame our political elites too
Justin Trudeau has chosen to place all of the blame on the unvaccinated for the current spike in cases and hospitalizations. The problem is, this is only a half-truth. It is political scapegoating. The other half of the problem is Trudeau himself – and the rest of Canada’s political elites who have declined to improve Canada’s public health system for decades.
There is so much more that our political leaders could have done to prevent, or at least mitigate, the current surge in Omicron cases and hospitalizations.
How capitalism made the pandemic worse, every step of the way
The internal logic of capitalism has tainted our government’s response to the pandemic. Corporate profits were preserved, while the interests of the working class were disregarded.
Pandemic austerity and vaccine nationalism were the primary themes of government responses, and have grave consequences for the working class and health of humanity.
An alternative solution, worker-ownership, is good public health policy as it would empower workers to create their own safe pandemic working conditions.
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U.S. merchants of death are salivating at all the money to be made from a possible war in Ukraine and conflict in the South China Sea. https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1487077037349212160
.@Raytheon’s CEO expects a boost from a possible Ukraine war, tensions in South China Sea & drone attacks on the UAE:
“All of those things are putting pressure on some of the defense spending over there. So I fully expect we’re going to see some benefit” https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/01/28/big-war-ceos-theres-chaos-in-the-world-and-our-prospects-are-excellent/
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Rebel News has to pay $252,000 in costs after Ezra Levant loses his SLAPP suit appeal against Al Jazeera. Ontario Court of Appeal notes that Rebel and Ezra have blemished reputations already, and a history of using litigation to silence critics. https://www.scribd.com/document/555557095/C69202-C69203-rere
