Wild Moon Child

So the country’s idiot leaders, death cultists that they are, are pushing for reopening, even as the death tolls are spiking. Small (and not so small) business owners tired of not siphoning off consumer money are falling in line, expressing their irritation with the stay at home orders and too selfish and ignorant to take fault- if any- with the government that has refused to actually give money to the people in any decent way, instead throwing it all at bailing out airlines and shit.

A vast majority of people want to continue staying at home, because the Coronavirus is nowhere near restrained and circulating will increase the risk of contagion for all of us, and put further strain on our healthcare workers.

So here’s the thing: Capitalists want us back in the shops. They want people to die for money. They are blinded by greed, and we don’t want to catch or spread Covid19. 

So can we all make a point to spread the word and encourage people to refrain from ending any stay-at-home orders-

-Do not go to restaurants or non-essential businesses

-Do not return to work (if possible)

-Do not ease up on physical distancing measures

-Do EXACTLY as you have been doing for the past month or so because Covid19 is *just now* peaking and is nowhere near over

-RESOLVE NOT TO DIE FOR A DOLLAR

Putting pressure on the country to return to work just because people who want your money are tired of not getting it is ridiculous, and THEY are lacking serious empathy. This has been stressful and dangerous for all of us, it is unconscionable that a bunch of non-essential business owners and even more just plain entitled privileged people are literally throwing a tantrum like selfish children because they’re ~tired of having to care about other people~ more than their bottom line and their personal convenience.

Any thoughts, ideas, additions? I know a lot of people feel this in their hearts but in a situation where the Entitled Minority is willing to organize and shout it out I think people  who want to stay-at-home should have some sort of interior movement as well, to bolster people’s fortitude, encourage them to stick it out, and show solidarity with all manner of workers who would unfairly be put on the front lines at the highest risk just because capitalists have no empathy.

 Reopening the country would also put other business owners at steeper risk, as once businesses are considered ‘reopened’ they will be expected to pay rent again, despite the crisis and whether or not they reopen. Furthermore healthcare and food service workers are dying at a ridiculous rate due to exposure– we should absolutely NOT ‘open up the country’ no matter what no matter what no matter what.

Not everyone gets to quarantine. Not everyone has a WFH job.

Some people are running the “essential” stores that people come to every day to browse idly because “everywhere else is closed!” Some people are throwing up stock of bleach and TP and canned food only to turn around and see the stock has vanished behind them.

Some people are stuck working for companies with no paid sick leave, or they are offered paid sick leave… if you get diagnosed with covid-19. And none of us can even get tested in most states even if we show symptoms due to the draconian guidelines on who gets a test.

Some of us are immunocompromised or live with elderly family and are fucking terrified of carrying covid home with us.

Some of us are “lucky” and are getting increased wages during this period. But it’s up in the air if that makes this shit worth it, and most of us don’t get that.

Regardless, I want to establish one thing: No one who works retail asked to be “essential” services. And none of us were trained for this and none of us are being paid enough for this.

Personally, I have enjoyed my job up until covid happened because I’m an incredibly anxious person, and my store was a quiet one, and I was good at my job. It was a calm environment to work in, and I was happy to find it.

Now, I’m having repeated crying jags in the stock room and looking up how to qualify for unemployment and not seeing a way out. I handle the money for the store deposit almost every night, and I intimately know my store is making at minimum 4x usual profit and some days 6x or 7x more.

My point in this post is that I know I’m not alone. I have two friends in similar straits who are also on the verge of breaking down. We can’t sustain this.

The rallying cry of “paid sick leave” doesn’t mean shit if it comes with the caveat that you have to test positive for a virus you can’t get tested for. And while I am trying very hard to be sympathetic to the people who are isolating, who are lonely, who are struggling, I feel like “essential” workers are being thrown in the woodchipper.

And it becomes very hard to hold onto that sympathy when people just! come into our stores! to walk around! Maybe if fewer people did that, maybe if my store stopped making astronomical amounts of money, we’d close for a few days. But nope.

Please start yelling loudly for hazard pay for essential workers. Please start yelling for testing for everyone so we can fucking go home. Please stop talking about how “brave” we are and help us.

This is not news, but it is an important read, especially for people who were previously unaware of the trend of neo-Nazis stealing pagan symbols for their own.

If you are an anti-racist, anti-fascist pagan, keep doing what you are doing, you are keeping the fight alive

If you are an anti-racist, anti-fascist person who is not a pagan, help us spread the word of this, stand in solidarity with us as we kick the fascists out of our communities

If you are a fascist pagan, fuck off, this faith is a peaceful one

No platforms for fascists.

the whole thread is way longer than this but these portions summarize exactly my thoughts on bernie sanders.

Researchers have used Easter Island Moai replicas to show how they might have been “walked” to where they are displayed.

Maori told Europeans that kiore were native rats and no one believed them until DNA tests proved it

Until they finally payed closer attention to local songs and legend that all essentially said “Yah the Goddess Nanda Devi got mad and sent huge heave stones down to kill them”. That was consistent with huge contusions found all on their neck and shoulders and the weather patterns of the area, which are prone to huge & inevitably deadly goddamn hailstones. https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10154065247212728/

“Inuit traditional knowledge was critical to the discovery of both ships, she pointed out, offering the Canadian government a powerful demonstration of what can be achieved when Inuit voices are included in the process.

In contrast, the tragic fate of the 129 men on the Franklin expedition hints at the high cost of marginalising those who best know the area and its history.

“If Inuit had been consulted 200 years ago and asked for their traditional knowledge – this is our backyard – those two wrecks would have been found, lives would have been saved. I’m confident of that,” she said. “But they believed their civilization was superior and that was their undoing.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/16/inuit-canada-britain-shipwreck-hms-terror-nunavut

“Oh yeah, I heard a lot of stories about Terror, the ships, but I guess Parks Canada don’t listen to people,” Kogvik said. “They just ignore Inuit stories about the Terror ship.”

Schimnowski said the crew had also heard stories about people on the land seeing the silhouette of a masted ship at sunset.

“The community knew about this for many, many years. It’s hard for people to stop and actually listen … especially people from the South.”

it’s literally the oldest accurate oral history of the world.