Class Warfare Will Worsen the Pandemic

Medieval depictions of the bubonic plague often illustrated a “dance of death,” portraying peasants, noblemen, and clergy all equally afflicted by the plague. The current pandemic affects people of all classes too. It made front page news when actor Tom Hanks (net worth approximately $400 million) announced he and his wife had contracted COVID-19.

Public opinion about Hanks, a beloved entertainer, is almost universally sympathetic, but attitudes toward the rich as a whole haven’t changed during the pandemic. Wealthy people remain easy targets for social prejudice and mistrust.

The headlines say it all. In GQ last month: “How Are Rich People Getting Richer During the Coronavirus Pandemic?” The month before that in the Atlantic: “It Pays to Be Rich During a Pandemic.” A recent Axios report detailed a smorgasbord of similar stories, all about wealthier individuals fleeing to private islands or using private health care to protect themselves from COVID-19. Axios quoted a progressive scholar who lambasted “an undercurrent of unequal sacrifice.”

Although news is supposed to be unbiased, classism is hard to shake. Supposedly neutral articles about bonuses and salaries often featured sweeping generalizations, along with negative and highly emotive terms such as “greed,” “gambling,” “excess,” “filling their pockets,” and “obscene.”

On the other hand, although Oxfam’s reports on wealth inequality in recent years have been criticized rightly for questionable methodology, widespread coverage of the reports often took their findings at face value. That’s likely because Oxfam’s central claims and the organization’s general thrust against “the super-rich” are closely aligned with much of the media’s editorial viewpoints. Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century received similarly favorable coverage.

I have nothing against Hanks and his wife. I’m glad they
are each okay. Not wishing anything bad on any of those
folks.

What really roils me is to have them push their faces in my
direction as if it was going to make life easier for me, or
they just needed to feel good about themselves.

These people mean nothing to me. I don’t feel better when
they send good wishes. Who do they think they are? Gods?

These publicity stunts where they are wishing high school
graduates congratulations make me want to gag.

“Oh I’m an actor. Surely you’re life will be healed if I
address your personal loss of graduate year festivities.”

Really????

“I want to donate my blood for a cure.”

One almost wonders if it’s because they realize there might
be immunity properties, or if it’s just that they think
their blood is so special on general principles.

D.C. Divide & Control tactics from SUPER-CRIMINALS and their minions in their TOTALITARIAN POWER CENTERS.

10. “Divide and govern” is a maxim consecrated by the experience of ages, andshould be familiar in its use to every politician as the knife he carries inhis pocket. In the work here to be executed, the best effects may be producedby this maxim, and with peculiar facility. An extensive republic made up oflesser republics necessarily contains various sorts of people, distinguished bylocal and other interests and prejudices. Let the whole group be well examinedin all its parts and relations, geographical and political, metaphysical andmetaphorical; let there be first a northern and a southern section, by a linerunning east and west, and then an eastern and western section, by a linerunning north and south. By a suitable nomenclature, the landholderscultivating different articles can be discriminated from one another, all fromthe class of merchants, and both from that of manufacturers.

http://ncoic.com/rep_mon.htm

UNIPARTARIAN SUPERCRIMINALS move on. “None Essentials” SLAUGHTERED.

Keep spinning that merry-go-round of responsibility UNIPARTARIANS, until NOBODY is responsible.

Lock arms, ammo, thoughts, best practices with brothers and sisters in cities, suburbs, countryside, other countries. It’s a BIG CLUB out here, and they are not in it. We have the template to re-build it. Thanks FF. Rights of INDIVIDUALS, yet no regulation, punishment, swift justice on SUPERCRIMINAL elitist overlords and their ground forces world-wide.

That, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. - Declaration

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