A Boring Dystopia

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Dollar General warns poorer US consumers are running out of money (www.ft.com)

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Discount retailer says low-income households feel more ‘financially constrained’ than six months ago

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Much like 2008, the pandemic never actually ended. When schools reopened, every classroom in the nation was full of children on their 4th, 5th, 6th infection in a month. Thousands of people still drop dead from it every month and the US is, to this day, still experiencing 30% more per capita deaths than pre-pandemic.

Long COVID is proven to cause permanent organ damage, including brain function. We won’t know what it does to child development until decades from now but it’s already proven to increase risk-taking and reduce higher level function in adults.

The accumulation of capital continues.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

This might be some confirmation bias, but it feels like everything has gotten a bit dumber since the pandemic and I wonder if covid effects on the brain are a part of it. Like I feel "normal" now, but I don't think this current "normal" is the same as what "normal" used to be for me. And for like 6 months after my first infection, it literally felt like my brain wasn't working as clearly as it normally did.