Headlines like this suggest that our masters are just as happy to sacrifice women as they are happy to sacrifice men as long as they get the money. Remember that healthcare workers are suffering pay cuts, furloughs, and even being forbidden to wear PPE to avoid "scaring" patients.

LacklustreFriend · 2020-04-18T16:58:06+00:00

To paraphrase Warren Farrell, the title "hero" is a social bribe to get people to sacrifice themselves. A title all too often use to coerce men and the lower classes alike to sacrifice themselves.

ConnorGracie · 2020-04-18T09:06:51+00:00

Coronas a lot safer than war.

autotldr · 2020-04-29T22:00:53+00:00

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 81%. (I'm a bot)

It was a thank you from the United States military, said the U.S. Air Force Demonstration Squadron, "To show appreciation and support for the healthcare workers, first responders and other essential personnel in Las Vegas and around the nation who are working on the front lines to combat the coronavirus." Each Lockheed Martin F-16 Fighting Falcon plane costs $18 million; it costs roughly $8,000 to fly a single one for an hour.

There are those working to keep the floods of patients alive: doctors, nurses, hospital aides, respiratory therapists, physician assistants, hospital sanitation workers, and administrative workers.

There are those who work to get us fed and medicated: grocery workers, farm laborers, pharmacists, restaurant workers, warehouse packers, delivery workers.

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Headlines like this suggest that our masters are just as happy to sacrifice women as they are happy to sacrifice men as long as they get the money. Remember that healthcare workers are suffering pay cuts, furloughs, and even being forbidden to wear PPE to avoid "scaring" patients.

Crosspost "Calling Healthcare Workers War “Heroes” Sets Them Up to Be Sacrificed" from /r/Coronavirus:

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