If people weren't willing to "make things worse" during times of crisis we'd still have peasantry. Peasants used the black plague and shortage of workers to make demands of their lords. The want of a general strike in the face of our new Corporate lords trying to force us to work during an epidemic is no different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta
Oh, and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death#Social
Note that what destabilized feudalism wasn’t a labor shortage, but rather because the surviving laborers found that food was cheaper and that they owned more property, in that all their relatives were dead.
Like, I get that you’re perfectly happy to reduce the quality of life for everyone to achieve personal power, but let’s also move back one step.
Because it’s important.
I? Am also general labor. I’m an essential worker who keeps having to go to work despite not being well (I don’t have Covid but I have my own illnesses) and I can tell you, sure as anything, that your viewpoint is not universal among the actual fucking laboring classes.
So. Will you acknowledge that you’re not fighting as a unified labor front, and that you’ve done very little to mobilize in among people of my form of labor? And I’m an actual fucking union member, full on nothing less labor union member and fucking proud of it... Or will you state that as you’re fighting for the common man, you don’t ACTUALLY need the support OF the common man?
‘cause from where I’m sitting I’m finding it fucking SHOCKING that there’s been no push for this among my workplace, and we’re as union as can be.
