I was pleased to take part in the meeting of the Zero-Covid Group on Monday evening alongside members of Independent Sage and others. I am 40 or so minutes into the video linked in this Tweet:
Where next for the Covid crisis? With @HackneyAbbott @RichardBurgon, @dgurdasani1, @SusanMichie, @zenscara @ucu, @CatHobbs @We_OwnIt, @Emmy_F4VL, @RichardJMurphy, @HelenOConnorNHS @GMB_union, Jonathan Fluxman, Ben Chacko @M_Star_Online https://t.co/eg40azSfXB
— ZeroCovidNow (@ZeroCovidNow1) January 10, 2022
There are a lot of other contributions well worth watching.
A clip from what I said featured in this tweet:
"Unless you have a functioning society, you do not have a functioning economy". @RichardJMurphy of @TaxJusticeUK explains that a healthy economy requires proper public health measures pic.twitter.com/2LA9bqD2LQ
— ZeroCovidNow (@ZeroCovidNow1) January 11, 2022
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‘People who do not understand systems’.
Spot on Richard.
But it’s not hard to see why with their hyper-individualised world-view. Me-me-me.
A system to a Neo-liberal is something that can be broken down into markets and income streams with each segment literally serving its own interests – I’ve seen this happen right from compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) in the public sector where I’ve seen it split collaborative team work in the name of ‘efficiency’.