How do you survive winter during a pandemic without a place to live, plus money for heat and clothes and food? How does the human dimension of all this get so lost? This is not about economics; it’s about human suffering and we should say so.

Feb 1, 2021 · 7:35 PM UTC

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If they cared, they would have done something. Meanwhile people are stuck arguing over whether it's 1400 or 2k when neither meets the moment we are in. We need a temp UBI. Even those who don't necessarily "need" the money would add to the economy & help get people back to work.
Replying to @marwilliamson
I think you need to address this issue every day in your tweets. I would but I’ve got no following so I instead reply to related tweets where the “tweeter” does have a following.
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Most ppl have never been there, it’s someone else. Not going to happen to them. We have a lot of YETS, waiting for us. Stay humble.
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Very good question! unfortunately with this pandemic, we only think of humans when we need numbers to justify the economics!
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From personal experience- you beg borrow & steal trying hard to keep your socks dry. You sleep in dumpsters cars & couches and let the reptilian brain take over. Then you promise yourself when you come up that you'll take extreme measures to avoid going through that hell again.
if you try to do anything about the police will come shoot you, or subjugate you into prison slavery
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Agree. We soften hard facts and so they are altered.
The people in power are soulless.
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You know who survived the winter? Those European Spanish when they arrived here in America they were sickly and close to dying. They were nursed back to health by the natives indigenous tribes and then stabbed in the back.
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How do you survive? You don't. They don't want them to survive, they don't want us to survive, they don't want to allow us to live as they do. They just want to continue profiting off of that suffering. This is absolutely about how America's economics exploits human suffering.