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Omicron upends the class politics of Covid
American Thinker ^ | 28 Dec, 2021 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 12/28/2021 4:11:33 AM PST by MtnClimber

Until Omicron came along, the official response to Covid served as an instrument of class warfare against blue collar workers and small businesses, on behalf of the tech oligopolists and selected big businesses such as Target, which were deemed “essential.” Not coincidentally, blue collar workers and small businesses are the core of the GOP base, while Silicon Valley and the plutocracy are the cash cows and power base of the Democrats.

But the Omicron Variant has – at least for now – turned that class dynamic on its head. Writing for the Brownstone Institute, Jeffrey A. Tucker explains:

The initial lockdowns had a strong class-based component. The working classes were assigned the job of delivering groceries, tending to the sick, driving the trucks filled with goods, keeping the lights on, and keeping the fuel running. The professional class, among whom were the people who pushed lockdowns in the name of disease avoidance/suppression, were assigned the job of staying home in their pajamas and staying safe.

It all happened seemingly in an instant. We all had to figure out whether our job qualified and what we should do. More striking at the time was the very notion that government bureaucrats could slice and dice the population this way, deciding what can open and what cannot, who must work and who must not, what we can and cannot do based on our station in life.

So it now seems obvious to me. This whole disaster would finally come to an end (or at least the end would begin) when it became obvious that the great strategy of class division and demarcation would fail to protect the Zoom class from infection.

That day has finally arrived, with cases soaring in many parts of the country and hitting everyone of every class,

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: communism

1 posted on 12/28/2021 4:11:33 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

2 posted on 12/28/2021 4:11:44 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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So what if Fauci, Inc. realize they’ve ridden this horse into the dirt? Why can’t they throw the narrative into reverse and announce Biden’s victory over Covid? What if the media and big tech announce the scamdemic is over and that the new variant, sniffleicron, would be the last. Hell, I’d be celebrating the news. The boobs and Karens of the “in Fauci we trust” crowd would have the ok to go back to a normal life with a normal 2022 flu season and Biden would have accomplished the greatest feat since FDR single handed won WWII.


3 posted on 12/28/2021 4:34:57 AM PST by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: MtnClimber
That day has finally arrived, with cases soaring in many parts of the country and hitting everyone of every class,

The CHINA VIRUS is doing what all viruses do: continue to mutate until it infects as many people as possible, before finally burning itself out / dying off / becoming an endemic that hardly anyone worries about.

Anything else ("working class" vs. "zoom class") is unadulterated, made-up BULLSH*T by the author designed to separate and pit people against each other. So sick of that crap.

4 posted on 12/28/2021 4:41:35 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: hardspunned

Just in time for the midterms, too.

Covid, responsible for more coincidences that anything else we’ve seen yet.


5 posted on 12/28/2021 5:07:38 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: usconservative
Anything else ("working class" vs. "zoom class") is unadulterated, made-up BULLSH*T by the author designed to separate and pit people against each other. So sick of that crap.

Actually, I see that as exactly what happened.

The left’s whole goal is to create division and pit us against each other and dividing America into essential workers who must allegedly risk their lives and the elite who could stay home and quarantine, and often get paid while not working (teachers come to mind), is ideal for them.

6 posted on 12/28/2021 5:10:41 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…)
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To: MtnClimber

Good one!


7 posted on 12/28/2021 5:13:05 AM PST by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: metmom
Actually, I see that as exactly what happened.

Because you've bought into their mentality. I have not and I refuse to. The more you allow them to divide us all in your own mind, the more they win.

8 posted on 12/28/2021 5:15:39 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: hardspunned

You are quite prescient. Exactly what’s going to happen. Omicron will end the pandemic. It’s natural law. More contagious less dangerous is herd immunity. In fact I think we are seeing that in South Africa where they have dropped all restrictions with 80% infected or vaccinated.

The vaccines serve a role. They have prevented death. Delta deaths were entirely in the unvaccinated. But were I Biden I would absolutely pivot to Covid is defeated. Look man, we pushed the vaccines, and son of a bitch no one is in hospital. Happy days are here again. He works well benefit to apply the strategy that several of those against vaccines here use — correlation is not cause. But in this case he could probably claim credit without demonstrating anything based on the horrendous fatigue of people with Covid.

It’s all over but the shouting.


9 posted on 12/28/2021 5:21:37 AM PST by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will. )
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” It’s all over but the shouting.“

I pray you are right. However, as it ends, some of us will still have our natural immune systems intact.

10 posted on 12/28/2021 5:50:18 AM PST by Apple Pan Dowdy (... as American as Apple Pie)
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They have prevented death. Delta deaths were entirely in the unvaccinated.

Don't Write such nonsense!

In the United Kingdom, at least 259 people have died after contracting the delta variant of COVID-19. Of these, 116 people were fully vaccinated, according to the latest data from Public Health England.

https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-do-covid-vaccines-protect-against-the-delta-variant/a-58263950

11 posted on 12/28/2021 7:45:49 AM PST by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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It’s not nonsense. Seeing how I practice medicine in America and was actually in the hospital during delta and that my observations were very consistent with the other physicians around here…well you can believe what you want. I trust my own eyes and my own practices

Happy new year.


12 posted on 12/28/2021 10:51:15 AM PST by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will. )
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To: gas_dr

Nobody cares what you do for a living if you don’t bother checking the facts. Vaccinated people in the US have died from Delta as well. Go check the CDC numbers before promoting this stuff as though it is somehow magically solving the epidemic.

Cheers


13 posted on 12/28/2021 6:42:38 PM PST by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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