also who the hell says "separated from government service" for people being fired, like what even is this euphemism, I thought we already had "let go" for thi
In addition to you being correct, this is also a good example of how proper marxist argumentation requires little to no obscure jargon, buzzword flim flam, or rhetorical circlejerking. The author could learn a thing or two
Yeah I'm no epidemiologist either, but there's something significant about a [x]demic with the impact of COVID. It killed as many people as AIDS in a tenth the time, fundamentally disrupted life for most humans for at least a span of months if not longer, caused immediate dramatic impacts across every country on the entire planet, has left lasting global repercussions economically, politically, physiologically, and psychically, and inarguably altered the course of planetary political economy, acting as a key event in the degradation of neoliberal imperial capitalism and the rise of socialist China as the world's leading power. So I'm not really trying to quibble over the pandemic label as much as I am disputing the sense I see that hantavirus will be COVID all over again or worse.
AIDS has never been a pandemic. Swine Flu was classified a pandemic but was orders of magnitude smaller than covid, to the extent that it shouldn't really go in the same category imo
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