Post date: Apr 13, 2020 5:39:4 AM
.. which is itself a re-post of a Rebecca Solnit article!
"Pandemic's revealed interconnectedness is incompatible with capitalist doctrines of individualism. This interconnectedness is a longstanding scientific consensus. That's why the right is so hostile to science: reality has a leftist bias.
The right's rejection of coronavirus science – insisting on keeping businesses and churches open – isn't an aberration, it's just a vivid example of the longstanding denialism over everything from abortion to the climate crisis. The pandemic makes slow things fast.
The pandemic crisis reveals our true natures. Everyday people engage in selfless acts of charity and generosity and mutual aid. Rich people cower in bunkers and insist that we all need to get back behind the wheels of our Ubers.
Solnit holds out hope that when this ends, we'll learn from it: "I wonder if we will rethink how we were linked, how we moved about and how the goods we rely on moved about."
full article: [here].