An Australian MP who has so far built here career on identityΒ victim status decided to remind the Australian legislature just how hard the Coronavirus has been on women because sexism or something.
Sure, the virus infects men at a higher rate and kills them at a much higher rate, but so what.
Yes, many nurses are women, but equipment and facility maintenance (including in hospitals) is overwhelmingly male, so are the hazardous waste and garbage disposal workers who have to handle all the infected biowaste that these hospitals are putting out.Β Don’t forget the overwhelming male dominance of first responders like police, firefighters, and EMT’s.
Not to mention the factory workers and truckers making and shipping this sudden demand for PPE across the country.
Many people have a role to play in tackling this crisis, but apparently only women are suffering.
I guess asking the hospital maintenance men who are keeping the building in operation to work double shifts isn’t as bad as asking the nurses to work double shifts.
Maybe it’s just me, but this moment, this identity politics grievance-mongering just seems extra grating.
We are in the middle of a pandemic that threatens not just lives but the collapse of the global economy, and yet “women and minorities hardest hit.”
For the last couple of weeks the grievance-mongers have either been silent or ignored because of the enormousness and enormity of the situation.
(Except for the “China virus is racist” which seems to be ChiCom coordinated propaganda.)
For what it’s worth, it’s been a pleasant respite from all of that bullshit.
Hopefully, as society goes back to normal, we will remember what it was like not to hear identity politics grievance bullshit and normal people will start to tell the grievance-mongers to stuff their griping up their asses.
In a time of dire circumstances, we learn very quickly what is important and what is not.Β It was made crystal clear in the last couple of weeks that the people who can make, ship and stock, toilet paper and hand sanitizer are infinitely more valuable to society than idiot celebrities and grievance-mongers.
Let’s not forget that in the post-Coronacrisis world.
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