Q: why is the west not implementing any preventive measures?
2022-Jul-09, Saturday 08:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerI can't even come up with a good conspiracy theory for why the western world seems intent on infecting everyone with SARS-CoV-2. What reason for it do you think is plausible?
Any theory needs to simultaneously satisfy (or at least not contradict) 2 critieria:
I have 3 plausible (just not "good") reasons. I'll add them after a week, so I don't influence the suggestions offered.
edit: 2022 July 25:
I forgot to add my answers after 1 week. As I said, they're not "good" reasons, just plausible, and they all 3 distill to the essence of neoliberalism that has infected too much of our social environment. For people/countries to which these ideas don't apply, consider how tied they are (politically, militarily, and financially) to people/countries that are like this.
1) Capitalism (short view). There are too many large costs associated with the immediate measures necessary to change our course. Economic costs, political costs. Redesign offices and cities for clean air? Require masking in groups? PHFFFT!
2) Capitalism (long view). There's just no profit in curing people. Infecting all of humanity with a lifelong slowly-destroying disability, though... KA-CHING! Just imagine the profits in medical care!
3) Christian death cult. Too many people are beholden to Biblical "End Times" theology, so anything that seems to hasten the predicted apocalypse is a good thing in their eyes. Setting loose the First Horseman of Pestilence is just helping God's work on Earth.
And if you want a tinfoil hat theory with no basis in reality whatsoever:
4) Our alien overlords demanded that we reduce our global population, or they would do it for us. (This theory doesn't explain why China is exempt from the mandate.) On the plus side, this plague will soon help us overcome our global climate change problem.
Any theory needs to simultaneously satisfy (or at least not contradict) 2 critieria:
- Why has the western world abandoned any effort to prevent people from getting infected with SARS-CoV-2?
- Why is China still insistent on its "Zero COVID" policy?
I have 3 plausible (just not "good") reasons. I'll add them after a week, so I don't influence the suggestions offered.
edit: 2022 July 25:
I forgot to add my answers after 1 week. As I said, they're not "good" reasons, just plausible, and they all 3 distill to the essence of neoliberalism that has infected too much of our social environment. For people/countries to which these ideas don't apply, consider how tied they are (politically, militarily, and financially) to people/countries that are like this.
1) Capitalism (short view). There are too many large costs associated with the immediate measures necessary to change our course. Economic costs, political costs. Redesign offices and cities for clean air? Require masking in groups? PHFFFT!
2) Capitalism (long view). There's just no profit in curing people. Infecting all of humanity with a lifelong slowly-destroying disability, though... KA-CHING! Just imagine the profits in medical care!
3) Christian death cult. Too many people are beholden to Biblical "End Times" theology, so anything that seems to hasten the predicted apocalypse is a good thing in their eyes. Setting loose the First Horseman of Pestilence is just helping God's work on Earth.
And if you want a tinfoil hat theory with no basis in reality whatsoever:
4) Our alien overlords demanded that we reduce our global population, or they would do it for us. (This theory doesn't explain why China is exempt from the mandate.) On the plus side, this plague will soon help us overcome our global climate change problem.