A Communist Christmas
December 22nd, 2020Update: In Pandemic America’s Tent Cities, a Grim Future Grows Darker
The pandemic did this. The pandemic did that.
Wrong.
Governments caused this disaster.
Via: Reuters:
Phoenix is just one example of a slow-motion disaster unfolding in many large U.S. cities as homeless numbers, already growing in recent years, spike during the global pandemic.
The virus presents a compounding threat. Not only are these populations some of the most vulnerable to the coronavirus, but by destroying millions of jobs, the pandemic threatens a wave of evictions that experts warn could lead to a catastrophic housing displacement and even more people living on the streets.
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Via: Awaken with JP:
Yep, I’ve noticed the same thing, expressions like ‘pandemic ravaged’, etc, as if a virus could take someone’s job and turf them out on the street.