Naomi Klein

Unsurprisingly more-than-a-little alarmist in her views

something resembling a coherent pandemic shock doctrine is beginning to emerge. Call it the Screen New Deal. Far more hi-tech than anything we have seen during previous disasters, the future that is being rushed into being as the bodies still pile up treats our past weeks of physical isolation not as a painful necessity to save lives, but as a living laboratory for a permanent – and highly profitable – no-touch future

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