One thing to think about is COVID might represent the greatest patient influx to hit a hospital system that was not already acculturated to military/civil emergency triage
all this shit you are celebrating. Lol. If you “(white) gentry” won’t cede a bit of your material hegemony and let us live in a genuine multiracial democracy then we’ll have no choice but to burn this shit to the ground. We won’t win but we’ll make sure you’ll spend your middle and old age in constant fucking terror
my sides!
Like, the ‘90s settlement expected a situation where all Americans could be comfortably White together, even the brown ones, and the '00s efforts to diversify the officer class initially looked in keeping with that and could have been the foot in the door to infiltrate but “you” made such a great gallumphing spectacle of it that long before approaching hegemony you triggered a countercoalition
Bears pointing out that in addition to COVID going “long” once and basically upgrading everything about me I wanted since 5th grade, the second time presented as a classic Batman like… Robin-level puzzle I had to solve to turn from a serious threat to a minor distraction, and my overall experience here has been radically more positive and self-affirming than anyone else’s
Once again a reminder that a lot of the American post-Cold War “peace dividend” of reduced military spending was under Clinton and the Bushes put into healthcare and education funding, so when nurses and teachers wail that “what, are they expecting us to keep doing our jobs in the face of mass trauma and deadly threat in order to satisfy state imperatives to serve power blocs?!?” yes, that is traditionally how it goes
The meninists were correct that historically it was men bearing the weight of the expectation to give your life for the state. Equality!
Pandemic dreamtime been doing a good job of drawing out “left” people whose values are fundamentally incompatible with the maintenance of society to make a spectacle of this in front of the ones in charge of maintaining it
Okay after giving it time to establish and do its deep learning, Facebook Dating seems to optimize for class/educational achievement compatibility better than any other dating thing I’ve seen, which I guess makes sense given FB started as a Harvard Hot or Not and when I signed on it was largely about clarifying which of your Ivy League classmates were available. Flatteringly it seems to class me with girls with 2-3 year postgrad degrees from good schools, though it’s still in the process of realizing nursing degrees mean something different
I just asked about the sign at the bar in Portland asking for proof of vaccination to sit at the bar and the bartender (who had pulled up his mask when he saw me coming) didn’t ask and just wiped off a spot for me
