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Naomi Klein: How big tech plans to profit from the pandemic
For a few fleeting moments during the New York governor Andrew Cuomo’s daily coronavirus briefing on Wednesday 6 May, the sombre grimace that has filled our screens for weeks was briefly replaced by something resembling a smile. “We are ready, we’re all-in,” the governor gushed. “We are New Yorkers, so we’re aggressive about it, we’re ambitious about it … We realise that change is not only imminent, but it can actually be a friend if done the right way.”
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Unsurprisingly more-than-a-little alarmist in her views
riiiiight. hyperbolic much?
im not saying that's not a risk. it is
however... this is one possible outcome, dependent on so many different sets of circumstances happening in an exact sequence of events that given those parameters a paragraph like the one above is far better suited to pages of a sophomore scifi novella than a serious journalistic publication for grown-ups
i mean the language choice is editorialized so fucking badly: disaster, shock doctrine, bodies pile up, physical isolation, no-touch future, laboratory, permanent
give it a rest would ya? liek we are all leik freaked out abuot it already or somethiiiing so leik why dont you leik do your fucking job by putting focus on the facts and leave the mass hysteria to the politicians and tin-foil-hat-wearers