#failed state

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Capitalism in action:

Step 1: Three companies come to control nearly all of the baby formula market by driving out or buying up competitors.

Step 2: One of the three, which holds 43% of the market, declines to replace its old and failing drying equipment, leading to rapid bacteria growth that resulted in four babies dying from infection after consuming the formula.

Step 3: The company, Abbott Laboratories, recalls its biggest formula brand. This leads to a massive shortage and panic as parents of infants drive hours looking for stores that have any in stock.

Step 4: Babies are gonna die from this, particularly the ones in poor households.

Capitalism will always lead to shit like this, because capitalism requires continuous growth and at some point you can’t grow any more without becoming a monopoly. The system requires the death of infants.

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Legislatures love capitalism. Legislatures also love a monopoly that pays state taxes. Legislatures would love to appear to address this problem, then not.

Bonus: approx 1 in 133 have Celiac disease. It usually isn’t tested for in menstruating people because blood loss AND Celiac both cause iron-deficient anaemia, and it’s easy to blame your stupid period than to do ONE (1) blood test specific for glutamase. Celiac is an auto-immune condition, different from a wheat allergy or intolerance (BOTH common in infants, btw!)

What do you think many formulas are made from?

Yep. Wheat or gluten-filled products.

So what happens when your baby is always sick with random digestive issues, spends hours screaming, is eating but somehow becoming more and more malnourished if the intestines stop taking up nutrients due to intestinal death from wheat exposure?

maybe…… you’ll get reported for child neglect? and have your kids seized?

maybe something that mainly targets low-income people and racial minorities?

would that, perhaps, be a felony in many places? places where felons, perhaps, can’t vote?

hmmmmmmm

Babies hospitalized in South Carolina because of formula shortage

Oh hey, look! Babies are being out in the ICu because people tried to make 80 year old formula recipes going around on facebook or dying because of… EXACTLY WHAT THE FUCK I said would happen! Autoimmune and allergic reactions!

Another article talks about women driving to up to 20 stores, daily, just to find formula. Breastfeeding for millions is not an option. Besides biological issues, MANY common medications pass on in breastmilk, so a baby can be poisoned with, say, heart medications or asthma meds. Common stuff.

The eugenics programs have been here. It’s just finally spread to poor white babies.

“In 2003, after the SARS epidemic, scientists were well aware that a pandemic was likely, probably a related coronavirus. They also understood how to prepare for it—just as scientists today have a good idea as to how to prepare for a future pandemic.

"But it’s not enough to know. Someone has to pick up the ball and run with it. The obvious candidate is Big Pharma, with huge resources, thanks to the profits from exorbitant patent rights granted under the highly protectionist ‘free trade’ agreements. They’re ruled out, however, by normal capitalist logic. There’s no profit in preparing for a catastrophe down the road. And in fact it can be in their interest to impede a constructive response.

"Next, the government could step in, but that’s blocked by the neoliberal intensification of capitalism’s inherent inhumanity. As Reagan declaimed in his inauguration speech, government is the problem, not the solution. Translation: Take decision-making away from the government, which is at least partially responsive to public influence, and hand it over to private tyrannies that are unaccountable to the public…

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"The third factor is the reactions of individual governments. They varied. China very quickly provided the WHO and the world with all relevant information. By early January, Chinese scientists had identified the virus and sequenced the genome. Some countries at once reacted, including Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, New Zealand, a few others. Each now seems to have the crisis largely under control. Europe dithered but finally acted, with varying degrees of success.

"At the bottom of the barrel is Trump, reflecting his dedication to his primary constituency—private wealth and corporate power, lightly hidden under a farcical display of 'populism.’ Throughout his term in office, Trump has systematically pursued policies that enrich his primary constituency while harming others, including his adoring crowds. One part of this program was steadily defunding the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and dismantling programs and organizations that could have provided advance warning of what was likely to happen. As a result, the US was singularly unprepared.”

–Noam Chomsky, “COVID-19 Has Exposed the US under Trump as a 'Failed State,'” in The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for Social Change (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2021), 261-263

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