Reply to post: Re: Lockdown endgame? There won't be one until the West figures out personal responsibility

Lockdown endgame? There won't be one until the West figures out its approach to contact-tracing apps

veti Silver badge

Re: Lockdown endgame? There won't be one until the West figures out personal responsibility

"Personal responsibility" means that the rich get to do what they want and the poor do what they're told, which is to stay poor and die in much larger numbers. You can see this unfolding in the USA right now. Trump/governors can indeed drive people back to work by stopping the flow of money to them, but it's the poorest who will be forced back first, the rich can afford to sit on their butts for a few more weeks.

This won't be over when lockdown ends. World Wars 1 and 2 saw a huge social levelling. (So for that matter did the black death, in medieval Europe.) If that doesn't happen this time around, then the reckoning from that failure will make the pandemic itself look like a picnic.

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