they didn't drop mask mandates and end extended unemployment benefits because the pandemic was over.
they wanted us “back to normal” so that we would stop using collective power to demand justice, and lose the safety nets that had enabled more organized activism than we'd seen in our lifetimes.
if/when you stopped wearing a mask and taking other daily COVID precautions, you were used as a tool in the capitalist hierarchy of oppression.
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