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The issue here, as the article states is not about conspiracy but opportunity. But between those two can be a vast chasm. We had a series highly destructive earthquakes (and thousands of aftershocks) in Christchurch, NZ where I live nearly ten years ago. There was no conspiracy to beat up the seriousness of them - in fact I went to my step son's school singing event and the then Minister of Education (National Party, the approximate equivalent of the Tories) made an off hand remark about not letting "a few little earthquakes" stop us. Likewise, the Earthquake Recovery Minister and various bureaucrats on a number of occasions played down the seriousness and tried to claim things were progressing more quickly than we all knew they were. And of course, the responses were bourgeois response. No seizing the opportunity to plan the rebuild of the city centre as a state of the art sustainable people centred showpiece. No plan that saw the poorer East of the city having its needs addressed as a priority. Because bourgeios governments think in bourgeois ways. Likewise now. The latest figures put the infection numbers in the 700,000s and deaths at about 35,000. So a mortality rate of about 5% (probably more like 2% when the asymptomatic and otherwise undiagnosed are factored in). And that's because governments have taken pretty drastic steps. NZ is in a virtually total lock down for non-essential services. No bourgeoisie benefits from locking down the country, telling the workers to stay home and stop producing surplus value and, in New Zealand's case upping the national debt further by paying a wage subsidy to stay at home (and making clear that employers who pocket the subsidy rather than pay it to their staff will be prosecuted.) This is damaging to the economy. Yes, of course the government and business will try to blame the recession (or depression if that occurs) on Covid 19; it's what they do. But to have taken lesser measures would have been grossly irresponsible. Johnson (UK), Morrison (Aus) and Trump (USA) have taken huge risks in that direction and may yet pay a horrific (it already is horrific) price. John On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 8:04 AM RKOB via Marxism <marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > COVID-19 Crisis: When Bourgeois Sources Reveal the Truth > > On the plans and motivations of the ruling classes behind the global > mass lock down and the suppression of democratic rights > > by Michael Pröbsting, 31 March 2020 > > > https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/covid-19-crisis-when-bourgeois-sources-reveal-the-truth/ > > > -- > Revolutionär-Kommunistische Organisation BEFREIUNG > (Österreichische Sektion der RCIT, www.thecommunists.net) > www.rkob.net > ak...@rkob.net > Tel./SMS/WhatsApp/Telegram: +43-650-4068314 > > > > -- > Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/johnedmundson4%40gmail.com > -- The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
