The Future Under Covid-Capitalism

Canadians have racked up $5.8M in coronavirus fines, report says

Quebec leads the way so far, with more than 3,000 fines, per the report. Ontario comes second with 930 reported fines, followed by Nova Scotia with 516 and Alberta with 44.

https://www.sudbury.com/police/covid-compliance-600-complaints-lodged-but-only-one-fine-issued-to-date-2276107 wrote:Bylaw enforcement with the City of Greater Sudbury has received a total of 395 complaints with 241 related to social gatherings and 154 related to non-essential businesses open. To date, one fine has been issued to a local business.

Since March 17, Greater Sudbury Police officers have been dispatched to 223 COVID-19 calls for service. In all of the cases, the involved individuals have been compliant after being educated by the responding officers. No tickets or fines have been issued in relation to these calls.

Greater Sudbury Police has seen a decrease of 219 calls for motor-vehicle collisions in comparison to last year from March 17 to April 22.

https://www.nugget.ca/news/local-news/north-bay-police-issue-first-covid-19-fine wrote:According to her Facebook post, a North Bay mother received an $880 ticket Thursday for being in a public park with her daughter. Police say the ticket was the first issued in North Bay for failure to comply with the order. The ticket was given for failure to comply with an order made during a declared emergency under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act.

The mother admitted to being in Belleview Park on McGibbon Street with her daughter around 2:50 p.m., according to her Facebook post, Thursday.

“This process involved a police officer issuing a provincial offence notice for this allegation,” a media release from the North Bay Police Service said. “The fine is $750 plus additional court costs totalling $880.”

List of # fines given so far
Netherlands - 8.800
Belgium - 27.000
France - 915.000
UK - 6.000
Spain - 837.000
Italy - 418.222

In Fr, Sp and Italy most for "being in the streets for no valid reason"
UK: for "Sitting on a bench"
Nl, Belgium "not social distancing"

• Covid-19 Municipal By-laws ($750 dollar fines + court fees)
  
• Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act (declared in effect in Ontario on March 17th)
  
• Provincial 'Health Protection Acts' (Public Health Act, Public Health and Promotion Act, ect...)
  
• Federal Criminal Code (for coughing on people)
  

Canadian Leadership = Banally Evil Deficit-trolls

https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/coronavirus-covid-budget-deficit-defense-spending-trump-biden wrote:"Leftists & progressives need to make clear that the era of deficit hysteria is over, that talks of 'grand bargains' are off the table from day 1, & that no cuts to benefits critical to a family’s survival will be acceptable,"

FAIR media wrote:
Deficit concern trolling is an excuse for austerity; no one cares about it — not even the Koch Brothers

Journalist Adam Johnson has joked, “When I die, I want on my tombstone, ‘Nobody actually cares about deficits’.” And he’s completely right.

A leaked Koch Brothers internal strategy memo spells this out clearly. The hard-right billionaires give advise on how to sell tax cuts for the rich: ignore the deficit. Even the Kochs, the most powerful right-wing operatives on the planet, don’t actually care about the deficit. No one does. It’s just a pretense.

At the end of the day, reactionaries don’t actually want to end the deficit; they just want to pretend they’re managing it — while blowing $700 billion per year on “defense” spending.

https://www.defenseone.com/business/2020/05/us-defense-firms-hiring-thousands-amid-record-unemployment/165270/ wrote: As U.S. unemployment reached its highest level since the Great Depression amid the coronavirus pandemic, some of America’s largest defense firms are hiring thousands of workers to build fast-flying missiles, satellites and nuclear weapons.

Pentagon spending on missiles, satellites, and nuclear weapons fuels a production boom, as firms fight off commercial aerospace downturn.

Lockheed, the world’s largest defense company, already has hired more than 2,365 new employees since March when many U.S. companies began furloughing or layoff workers amid coronavirus stay-at-home orders. In addition, Lockheed is “actively recruiting for over 4,600 roles,” in 39 states.

Northrop Grumman says it could hire as many 10,000 this year. Raytheon Technologies another 2,000. Boeing, which is preparing to cut 10 percent of its 160,000-employee workforce as the airlines predict at least a three-year drop in sales, is advertising more than 600 open positions in the United States, largely in its defense, space, cybersecurity and intelligence units.

ect....

Hobb wrote:Been to the dentist and made a mental note: Treat health care people as cops - be polite, be vague and tell them what they want to hear. Not to be trusted.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/opinion/sunday/giorgio-agamben-philosophy-coronavirus.html wrote:The emergency declared by public-health experts replaces the discredited narrative of “national security experts” as a pretext for withdrawing rights and privacy from citizens. “Biosecurity” now serves as a reason for governments to rule in terms of “worst-case scenarios.” This means there is no level of cases or deaths below which locking down an entire nation of becomes unreasonable.

His point is that social distancing is at least as much a political measure as a public health one, realized so easily because it has been pushed for by powerful forces.

When a society loses its collective cool this way, the cost can be high. Rich, atomized, diverse, our society has a weak spot, and the coronavirus has found it. “For fear of getting sick,” Mr. Agamben writes, “Italians are ready to sacrifice practically everything — their normal living conditions, their social relations, their jobs, right down to their friendships, their loves, their religious and political convictions.”

With “techno-medical despotism [...] the threshold that separates humanity from barbarism has been crossed,” Mr. Agamben continues.

• It employees all the redundant cops by giving them new overly-broad harassment powers to fuck with innocent people - especially the lower classes.
  
  
• The medical establishment have clicked their heels and fallenl in line again doing their typical duty of promoting unscientific fear-mongering propaganda instead of rational counsel.  Most modern Doctors are Moral Cowards.
  
  
• Big Pharam loved the War of Drugs but this new war is a license for them to print money. State-enforced vaccinations = cha-ching!
  
  
• Again it is empowered by sheer liberal hypocrisy as they clutch chest in horror at maskless gatherings - and do then do the exact same in the privacy only wealth can by.
  
  
• Both are forms of cultural terrorism that leaves most of the population shaking with unfocused but deeply felt fears of being "contaminated" or "detected as unclean"
  
  
• And both Wars are wars against openness, compassion, gregariousness and relaxing the vice-grip of a traumatized culture. RAW was clear on this point, the 'War against Marijuana' was the really a War against Maternal Values. So is the 'War against Covid'. No more handshakes and hugs, no more gatherings, no more pub night solidarity, no more openness to strangers.
  

First they came for the 'dirty' blacks as I demanded they be locked away
Then they came for the 'dirty' hippies and I hooted and cheered
Then they came for the 'dirty' gays and I celebrated with an assortment of crude gestures
Then they came for the 'dirty' immigrants and their kids - it was about time too!
Then they came for the 'dirty' deplorable....   Hey fuck you!
Help! I'm being repressed! This is most completely unfair action in human history!
Why won't the Leftists I want to murder join me?