Because Im Sick To Fucking Death Of Viral Posts About Zip Ties, Or Those Scam Signs About Selling Houses

Because I’m sick to fucking death of viral posts about zip ties, or those scam signs about selling houses or needing cheap labor, or mini-vans hanging out at the gas station. That shit isn’t real, and it VICTIMIZES! real victims by covering up what really happens with fake 1980s stranger danger BS and makes it harder for real victims to get support and sets up a blame the victim narrative. So fucking stop it god damn. 

A friend of mine posted this and tagged my old instagram account, asking me to share it. I figured sharing it here where I actually have a following, would be far better.

Please remember that just because the government is giving into pressure and greed, that doesn’t mean that any of this is getting any better, in a lot of ways it’s getting worse. And even if you yourself aren’t being as heavily affected anymore, there are people and communities that are.

Stay safe Darling ones, and help others remain safe too.

Quick pointers regarding the covid 19 situation in india.

What's happening? There's been a large uptick in cases in india (325k+ in a single day) and we do not have to resources to cope with it. People are dying rapidly and they have to struggle to get a bed. They're dying on sidewalks.

The blame can be placed on a person and that person is narendra modi, our prime minister.

There was a lot he could have done to prevent it but he chose not to.

If you can donate, do not donate the PM CARES fund. We have all donated to it a while back but no one knows where the money went.

If you can't donate, please spread resources and infographics. Modi is very conscious of his image in foreign countries so defaming him is a very good shot we have to get him to do things.

okay, so this

being online right now is very irritating and stressful because if i open twitter it is divided between two streams right now: extreme doomposting and SOS’ from indian friends/follows and europeans & americans posting earnest but woefully misguided, and therefore patronizingly offensive bullshit, about the west needing to help india

like. this was a government manufactured crisis end to end, but no we’re not actually asking for vaccines that you can’t release because of contracts. we are specifically asking for specialist materials that are produced in the USA to be released so we can continue to manufacture vaccines because guess what, we do have one of the biggest vaccine manufacturing capabilities in the world, and the serum institute of india is the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, but none of that makes a difference if we do not have the material to make vaccines. which is what this is about.

like. i appreciate sanders campaigning to waiver the TRIPS provision but like that is not actually the critically urgent need, the critical urgent need is repealing the defense production act so we can have fucking materials to produce vaccines. you could waiver TRIPS and still not have fucking vaccines BECAUSE THERE ARE NO MATERIALS TO MAKE THE VACCINES WITH BECAUSE CRITICAL SPECIALIST MATERIALS ARE BEING HELD UP IN THE USA. 

this is not a case of technology transfer, this is a case of basic supply chain management and hiccups affected by protectionism. why is this so hard to understand. why is this simple basic fact glancing off everyone’s backs. adar poonawalla has been publicly asking for release of these materials for two fucking months, and now that india is in the headlines for the disaster what do well-meaning western leftists/progressives do? talk about shipping vaccines and waiving TRIPS, instead of the simple and immediate action that would actually eliminate a critical hiccup for vaccine production not only in india and europe. is it really that hard to understand that we don’t need gifts or donations; we need you to open up fucking supply chains. 

truly makes me sick and angry that Africa so far has only been able to vaccinate 1% of the whole continent’s population bc the whole western world is herding vaccines and wont share the patent with poor countries, so much for black lives matter