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iguessitsjustme · 1 month

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These are my personal favorites. And I got enough sleep so I'm feeling cruel again.

(I only put completed shows on these polls)

#be loved in house: i do #dna says love you #kiseki: dear to me #history 3: trapped #oh no! here comes trouble #we best love #see you after quarantine?#my tooth your love #about youth #history 2: crossing the line #i know i know that see you after quarantine isn't gonna win #but it is the cutest little show ever #and i mean little it's so short #but it's also very sweet and if you're reading these tags this is me trying to get more people to watch #i think you all will really like it please people watch that show #also i love all of these shows and more but alas i only have ten options #thank god anti reset and unknown are still airing cause i think i would die even more #anyway good luck godspeed and all that

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absolutebl · 1 year

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10 Great Slow Burn BLs

I was asked about great chemistry, slow burn, with lots of pining and yearning, and an HEA (of course). For slow burn there will be less high heat due to the style of narrative, so I am going with actor chemistry, as well as emotional and mental resonance, not necessarily physical chemistry. (Something like Bed Friends could be argued is high heat slow burn... which would be what? A rolling boil?)

Honestly, slow burn is pretty relative, so I'm going with romance pacing puts the kiss and togetherness at the back 1/3 (if not the very last episode). Rather than at the "normal" 2/3.

1. Light On Me (Korea 2021 Viki)

Korea does an elegant pastiche of traditional live action yaoi but all filming is cleverly deployed to bolster one of the most riveting love triangles ever put on screen… and I don’t like love triangles. The high school angst is strong with this one and it's certainly slow burn and there is some EPIC yearning drawn out over a longer than usual KBL. Full review.

2. My School President (Thai 2023 YouTube)

GMMTV gave us a classic high school set Thai BL with tropes like messy boys singing their feelings that made this one Love Sick for the modern age with all the gentle sweetness and pining ache, but none of the dated damaging tropes or issues. Yes, we’ve seen it all before, but I still ADORE this. And there is a lot to be said for the classics being executed perfectly. Who let my BL be this wholesome and funny? Possibly too slow burn for some, we wait many eps for that pay out, and Tin's pining is NOT quiet, but it defined dorky and earnest.

3. Old Fashion Cupcake (Japan 2022 Viki)

It's hard to call such a short show slow burn, but it is. There are many episodes spent watching Togawa just HUNGER for Nozue and try to court him by feeding. This is about a younger man with a long cherished crush on his boss (ten years older and going through a mid life crisis) who decides to save and seduce said boss with pancakes. It’s wholesome, comforting, sexy, and a very necessary narrative about still having hope, interests, and openness to affection at any age. It’s a stunningly filmed late-in-life coming of age/queerness story packaged in a subtle critique of expectations around masculinity, love, and loneliness… and it’s beautiful. Full review.

4. My Ride (Thai 2022 Gaga)

Thai BL grew up with this pulp (the first ever to make my end of year top 10). It’s a truly lovely and special little show featuring the extremely rare pairing of sunshine/sunshine (AKA a cinnamon roll couple) plus mature explorations of relationships using one of the softest, sweetest and most innocent friends to lovers vehicles. Kindly, overworked doctor meets broken-hearted motorcycle taxi driver in an “other side of the tracks” slow burn romance. Even though we see them meet, we also see one of them fall in love, step back, and PINE for olympic gold. With honest queer rep that adds to, but doesn’t impede, the story, and genuine conversation about the nature of class, wealth, and classism, not to mention communication, honesty, and respect for boundaries, you can’t go wrong with this show. Full review.

5. Cherry Magic (Japan 2020 fan sub)

AKA 30 Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard AKA 30-sai made Dotei Da to Mahotsukai ni Nareru rashii AKA Cheri Maho

The sweetest fluffiest magical realism BL, packaged as a pinning office romance, very low heat (practically chaste) but the cutest. It’s truly great. Don't expect kisses tho.

6. Wish You: Your Melody in My Heart (Korea 2020 Viki)

Set in the music industry featuring a talented singer and the pianist who falls in love with him (and his music), subtle and achingly adorable. High production, low heat, short run, very tame, and Korea, so all the pretty. Slow burn and lots of pining.

7. About Youth (Taiwan 2022 Gaga)

A truly lovely little coming of age high school BL with a classic YA low drama but high angst and an earnest depth. I didn’t even mind the singing, and that’s saying a lot. A weak seme/uke dynamic but tons of BL tropes (both rare in a high school setting but common for Taiwan) makes this one feel both sweet and colored by an almost real world authenticity and grit. Full review here.

8. The Tasty Florida (Korea 2021 Viki)

Another one where it's hard to describe as slow burn because it's so short, but there is certainly that feel and it's def got the pining. Not really a love triangle featuring the prettiest men ever to be grouped together outside of K-pop, honestly the visuals are ridiculous, there’s a story, it has to do with food, whatever, they so pretty.

9. See You After Quarantine? (Taiwan 2021 Viki)

This under appreciated gem is Taiwan’s answer to Gameboys and is just as charming and adorable yet still as quintessentially Taiwanese as one might hope. It features a Japanese love interest and the cutest most confused disaster gay. Slow burn because the two have almost no actual screen time together and yet manage some truly amazing chemistry. How does Taiwan do it?

10. Restart After Come Back Home (Japan 2020 Gaga)

AKA Risutato wa tadaima no ato de

Atmospheric study in rural Japan meets complex family dynamics built on a romance framework of city boy meets country boy, grumpy/sunshine. It’s beautiful and icy sweet. Slow moving in places but ultimately worth the patience, low heat, low angst, and stunning. Full review here.

Others?

A Tale of a Thousand Stars

Step By Step

Our Dining Table

Where Your Eyes Linger

Choco Milk Shake

Love Class

DNA Says Love You

My Only 12%

Dear Doctor I’m Coming for Soul

2nd part of the question:

Who does it best? Shows, actors, countries?

COUNTRIES

I have said it before and I will say it again, no one does thirst like Japan. I think however, Korea is also very good at pining and yearning. So for "countries" those would be my top picks. But most BL producers have some examples, it's just that Thailand, Taiwan, and the Philippines tend to pay out the yearning more quickly (see something like 2 Moons Ambassador for an example of this kind of pacing).

Japan and Korea will make you wait for it. For Thailand you usually have to rely on the high school stuff. 21 Days Theory and Love Sick are both also slow burn.

ACTORS (characters)

I do have a post about great piners, several in fact.

(from @crowie ask)

These top 10 picks are based on my personal definition of slow burn and pining, yours may differ.

Post updated June 2023 and only contains BL that has completed its run. Not responsible for epic pining or fab slow burn BL that comes after that date.

Please feel free to comment or repost with additions! Share the love... slow though it may be.

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respectthepetty · 1 year

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Hello. This might seem like a silly question but it's on my mind. What's the deal with the whole "we're talking on a mobile but let's show the characters in the same room" thing. The first time I saw I think it was Gen Y with Mark and Kit even before the whole separation thing. Then it appeared in MSP. And now in A Boss and a babe. And I'm sure I've seen it somewhere else but I can't recall now. To be honest I don't know if I like it or I hate it but for some reason it's nagging at me that it seemed like it came out if nowhere. Again sorry if it's a silly thing .

Also, love your blog, love the color commentary and I too think it's all on purpose and meaningful.

Hiya, Anon! Thanks for the appreciation! Also, I've written this before, but let me repeat it here - There are no silly questions on Tumblr! People created an entire fake movie, and somehow the BL folks convinced others that KinnPorsche was the Thai remake of it.

Now to your not-a-silly question! First, let me list the shows from the past few years that I can remember doing what you are writing about:

I don't file this in my mind's storage room, so if I miss any, someone shout it out.

See You After Quarantine? - Sato x Bo Chun

Hello, Stranger - Mico x Xavier

Gen Y - Mark x Kit

Fish Upon the Sky - Mork x Pi

GAP - Sam x Mon

HIStory 5: Love in the Future - Hai Yi x Johnny

My School President - Tinn x Gun

A Boss & A Babe - Gun x Cher

Bed Friend - King x Uea

I'm going to make an educated guess.

Looking at the timeline, this didn't come out of nowhere, but came out of necessity - a pandemic!

Gameboys - Gav x Cairo

There was a two-year+ period where many of the globe couldn't touch their loved one. The only way to "see" some family was through calls, so I think directors are making a conscious choice to show people in the same space after many years of that not being a realistic possibility.

I'm sure this technique has been used before 2019, but I think it's more of a sentimental choice to reinforce the narrative - people want to be around their loved ones. Technology is great, but it doesn't replace the feel of people sharing the same space and after having to deal with that for the past few years, we want to see people sharing the same space even if they aren't.

I, personally, like it. In HIStory 5: Love in the Future, Hai Yi was in mandatory quarantine when he spoke to Johnny on the phone, and they had several scenes on the phone where they would appear in the same room, yet when Johnny finally saw Hai Yi in person, he was left in awe.

Both were instantly attracted to each other, and it was believable because even though they were just talking on the phone, we saw them interacting.

Another educated guess is these shows are telling us that meeting and talking through the use of technology doesn't dilute the connection between the two people, but makes it stronger. The physical aspect is pushed aside and the emotional connection is front-and-center. King in Bed Friend is showing Uea that he doesn't just want his body, but he wants his presence. Mork in Fish Upon the Sky wanted Pi to know that he had always valued him as a person regardless of how Pi felt about himself. In Hello Stranger, Xavier and Mico would have NEVER gotten to know each other the way they did without the help of technology. Who knows how @dribs-and-drabbles and I would interact in real life, but in these tags, I'm trying my damndest to get in an ethical non-monogamous situationship, and know that my mama didn't raise no quitter.

TLDR: Technology brings people together, and putting them in the same room reinforces that.

#Gameboys #Hello Stranger #See you after quarantine?#history 5: love in the future #bed friend #my school president #a boss and a babe #fish upon the sky #gen y the series #GAP the series #making connections with technology #sharing the same space even when they aren't #waiting for daddy to slide into my DMs but apparently I gotta make the first move

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bonefall · 1 year

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+1 for reading this blog like a newspaper

(also, quid is slang for pound/£. 4 quid = £4 Think it's a southern/maybe specifically cockney thing?? Suddenly doubting that. Definitely more associated with working-lower middle class people)

I heard Quid more than Pound where I visited, and that was definitely not southern England so I don't think it's a southern thing

If there was any one thing I learned it's that wow Northerners don't like London

#I get it now though #Someone just had to mention Jersey and I was filled with instinctual bloodrage #The red only cleared from my eyes after realizing they meant a different jersey #Like ah okay yes I see. You too have a Jersey #But they rose the sea level so their jersey is in quarantine which is nice #(Jersey) translates directly in both dialects as (Untranslatable)#bone babble

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savefrog · 1 year

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me: okay we need to clean

stupid brain: i dont want to clean i only want to look at fish

me: if we clean we can get more fish

stupid brain: GO GO GO LETS CLEAN LETS GO

#petco has their tank sale rn...#got a 10 gal for a betta and a 20 long for an eventual river setup with hillstream loachies #i have a 10 gal in backup already but its got so much crust on it i think it's better off as a quarantine tank #i mean. at least if the replacement is 12$ thats like less than i bought that tank USED from a neighborhood store lol #ok wait no i think i got it for 10. but anyway. new tnak for almost the same price as an old crusty one #ive been scouring fb marketplace for used tanks and its hard finding one without some sort of drawback #anyway i listened to fish history while i cleaned im just going to use this hyperfixation to my advantage while its in the forefront #ive had aquarium hyperfixation come and go several times now so i think its safe to say itll be a recurring fixture #and therefore its safe to actually get tanks and not worry about dropping it later #this is all after a shrimp disaster...im just determined to do things better #also panicking bc i have 200000 scuds in my shrimp tank and i need something that eats them STAT #i dont mind the scuds and i dont rlly wanna just kill them but my shrimp just had a massive die off and i dont want them competing rn #my poor shrimpies ):#dont leave veggies in the tank for too long. even if they are tiny #also clean the tank BEFORE the shrimps have their babies and ur too scared to clean #also. have a backup air pump for the filter #you can see the series of events that went wrong ):#dullblogging

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whatohitsonfirewelp · 2 years

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Oh my god Michael survived covid-19

#you don’t UNDERSTAND #I find the time skip so FUNNY #like I have mixed feelings because Yes it makes sense and makes me like yeah I can believe these are the characters still #but it’s also just like okay??? feels kinda cheap???#but also give me answers because did these fuckers go through the most fucked up event and the have quarantine right after??#PLEASE #also did NO ONE apparently notice Michael‘dragging’ bodies or people or whatever into his little sewer home #like no missing people???#AND #why did this not affect the entire fucking town the first Halloween?#but also like It Does I can see it in those dumbass teens and how it was before #also can we just talk about how fucking DIFFERENT Corey and Michael are from the beginning of their story to the end #whatoh back at it again #but also the TRAMUA and how everyone reacts to their trauma and I LOVE #it because it makes SENSE #halloween ends

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majikdog · 2 years

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I miss Copia

#crying over meeting a fictional character again #but it was so scary and I did it I rlly did that #and I think he recognized that and was good to me #and I got to see my friend and make more friends #some other things happened that were unpleasant but overall it was so good and I want to go back #I’ve been sitting in my room alone for a week in quarantine and I’m just reflecting #and I was so scared I’d experience having any regrets during or after the ritual #but I still feel so good about it #feeling so lucky loved and seen and I have to get that out in the open somewhere so hi lol #but yeah uh thank you papa again for being so kind and gentle and making everything as warm as possible #and thank you Grace for being so awesome and patient with me #My Mummy Dust #Ghost #Vent #kinda #I just can’t believe I made it this far in life to say I actually had an opportunity like this #I’m rlly proud and I’m glad I can have something like this to be proud of #I wish I could go back in time and show younger me #she had no fucking clue how cool she would be now

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solradguy · 2 years

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At some point this blog passed the amount of followers my old blog with the 400,000 note post had. That's a weird feeling.

#textpost #On one hand it's cool that stuff I put a lot of work into gets at least a little recognition with this many followers #But on the other hand I feel like I have to be more careful about what I say or how I act #I guess the main difference between this blog and my old one is that #while I've had some big posts on this blog now the notes eventually taper off #But when you get a post with friggin 400k you've always got some asshole leaving their running commentary in your notifications #With that post it ended up reaching the serial killer 'fandom' and I got sick of it and remade but I've talked about that before #My posts on solradguy have more or less been contained to the GG fandom or neighboring FGC's so it's been tame #It's nice that Tumblr has some tools now to help kinda quarantine posts that go off the rails at least #I don't think I'll remake again but there is a discomfort that comes with knowing a rough estimate of how many people-#-are seeing whatever I post on here #I very much am the type of person that likes making stuff n throwing it into the wind n not really caring what happens after that lol

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iguessitsjustme · 1 year

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absolutebl · 1 year

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I'm new to bl so I apologize if my question is ignorant af. I'm watching Between us and like it so far. I got into bl via KP (there's just something addictive in it), but my absolute favourite is Semantic error. However, after those 2 series I for a long time struggled to find something that will work for me, and WinTeam finally did it. I love the characters of the 2 of them, there's even some plot, and the chemistry is through the roof. However, it kind of weirds me out that Win wanted Team to call him hia during lovemaking while at the same time him having two actual brothers is a huge part of who he is. Am I wrongly connecting "hia" with biological brothers? Maybe "hia" is something more in line with "bro"? Or not? Anyway, I love your approach to bl, and your humor.

No apologies necessary! Always delighted to meet a new fan. Welcome to the madness.

Ah, hia is more like phi, which means it operates as kind of a title and/or a pronoun as well as, in this context, an endearment. (more on honorifics, honorific pronouns, and polite particles here). The direct translation is put up as “bro” but it’s a lot more complicated than that.

For example, in English we may call a lover baby. That’s weird right? I mean think about it. Why would you call someone you’re fucking the title of a child? Creepy. Couples may continue to do such a thing even when they have babies of their own.

Or how about daddy?

Or in Kdrama’s the use of oppa? (Girlfriends to their older boyfriends, also means older brother, female to male)

Cultures tend to re-adopt familial terms for lovers a lot. It’s no weirder when it’s “sibling” (phi, hia, hyung, oppa, noona) than when it’s “child” (baby) or “father” (daddy), is it? Especially when the origin culture has a much more codified system of sibling honorifics and familial dynamics as part of their education and workplace environments (which both Korea and Thailand do, linguistically).

Actually, endearment use for familial honorifics is common in many collectivist cultures. I’ve been becoming more and more aware of the use of 哥 ge (older brother) 弟 di (younger brother) and 姐 jie (older sister) in Chinese romances. And I do not speak ANY Mandarin. (Incidentally that’s the same jay as in Thai for older sister of Chinese decent, the feminine version of hia.)

In Semantic Error during yaja time (at the bar right before their big mutual kiss) JaeYoung drops some of THE sluttiest hyungs every dripped out of the mouths of babes.

Hyung also means older brother, or roughly that. Again it’s also acts as an honorific. In this case it’s a blatant seduction. Prior to this he was very hung up on SangWoo’s utter refusal to use hyung on him, and upset that he simultaneously allowed oppa + a nick name from Ryu Ji Hye. I mean there was a respect thing going on there, but also an affection thing.

Here’s Asian Honorifics & BL - a quick & dirty guide, with examples

Meanwhile KinnPorche, Semantic Error, and Between Us is an interesting trifecta. Some others you might like?

From Thailand: Bad Buddy, TharnType, Cutie Pie, Lovely Writer, Manner of Death

From Taiwan: We Best Love, HIStory 2: Crossing the Line, HIStory 3: Trapped, See You After Quarantine?, DNA Says Love You

From Japan: Old Fashion Cupcake, Seven Days

From Korea: To My Star, Blueming, Long Time No See, Roommates of Poongduck 304

From China: Addicted: Heroin

All of these have pairs with killer chemistry and a decent story.

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fleshdyke · 2 years

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my monstera’s best leaves are drooping too low that they’re just under the windowsill 😐

#like. i got her two days ago from a walmart so obv she’s not in the best shape and she’ll perk up eventually and sprout some new leaves #but i haaate when i get a new plant and it looks like that. yk.#but after i’ve had it for a while and it’s grown nicely i looove looking at it. like my money tree and palm have very clear lines where #you can see when i got them and they finally started to get proper care #ugh i need to repot my money tree soon i’ve been putting it off for ages #it’s on my dresser rn but it’s gotten big enough that the new pot might be too big for the dresser and i’ll have to put it on the floor #which. i don’t really have enough room on the floor for another plant unless i put it in another room #which is where my monstera is quarantining rn #i am glad i finally have a monstera now though. i’ve been wanting one for ages and her pot is pretty nice too #rambles

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windtraces · 2 years

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-tries not to be paranoid- -knows for sure that the blog checking has happened- -tries fucking hard until the schizotypy itself explodes-

#i'm too fucking tired to not be schizotypal right now #i've barely been able to sleep for SEVERAL reasons #and if you see this after i blocked you or someone tells you about this then fuck you. fuck you and how dare you #i'm not giving details just #if i don't have you blocked this isn't about you so no worries to mutuals and stuff #but jesus christ i feel really paranoid and i keep thinking about things #and specifically one thing where someone saw my posts about completely unrelated shit #i don't want to cry i need to work but i just know i'm gonna be paranoid as hell #quarantining my schizo meltdown to tags at least instead of the post itself #ventipost

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boldly-ho · 2 years

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Good fucking GOD I think I tweaked my back yesterday but I have no idea how. I didn’t even do anything??? I woke up this morning and was immediately like wow! This feels so much better. But then I sat up and it hurt so bad I almost threw up so fuck that shit. It feels like agony in my rib/thoracic region. Anyone ever had that???? How long til you felt better ? Im gonna go to the dr. but still jfc

#also I feel so guilty for calling in AGAIN after last week that I want to puke from that on top of the pain so #literally I hate this #I was looking forward to today wtf #we were gonna be fully staffed and I wanted to use the extra time to fix up the quarantine room with better barriers and fun enrichment #also I’m afraid everyone at work is going to hate me #(Emily if you see this pls ignore)#(also sorry fr fr)#personal

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theophagie-remade · 9 months

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Teenage me could lay in bed in the dark for hours and still not fall asleep despite wanting to and now if my head hits the pillow I'll be out cold within 15 minutes

#i can't share stuff to my tts app and listen to it anymore do you see my tragedy #it's been a steady decline especially since after the first quarantine 🤧🥲#mytext

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howyouducan · 11 months

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I am so fucking ready for Dreadwolf to metamorphose the DA fandom into something new. To be real, it desperately does need like 500 new young people with fresh eyes who have not been waiting ten years for a video game

#tbh i have not been waiting a decade because i only picked up dragon age during quarantine #but DAI does feel like it is physically dragging me back in time to 2014 and it's made me jaded #it's so bizarre to see the changes to the social and political atmosphere.#On one hand... the attitude and slang and fashion sense and whatnot in DAI have NOT changed much in the last decade #(in contrast to DA2 which was very edgy in a bloody medieval Hot Topic way)#BUT in DAI the way they talk about politics and war and templars?? SO dated holy crap.#can you imagine in the two years after DAI? 2015 and 2016. Saying that there isn't a difference between templars and mages?#Stopping yourself from smack talking the cops because “they're on your side”?#THAT mindset changed almost overnight

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theculturedmarxist · 10 months

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In 2020, Robert Kuciemba, a woodworker in San Francisco was infected with covid by a co-worker after his Nevada-based Victory Woodworks transferred a number of sick workers to the San Francisco site for a few months.

Through the proceedings of the case it turns out that the employer knew some employees might be sick but they transferred them anyway and ignored a San Francisco ordinance in place at the time to quarantine suspected covid cases.

Kuciemba was subsequently infected and he then infected his wife, who ended up in ICU on a ventilator.

The California Supreme Court just ruled against Kuciemba on the basis that a victory, while, in the court's words, "morally" the right thing to do, would create "dire financial consequences for employers" and cause a "dramatic expansion of liability" to stop the spread of covid.

There’s a few stunning details to note in this case. First, the court agreed that there is no doubt the company had ignored the San Francisco health ordinance. In other words, they accepted the company had broken the law. And then concluded “yeah, but, capitalism.”

Secondly, the case was so obviously important to the struggle between capitalism and mass infection that the US Chamber of Commerce, the largest business lobbying organisation got involved and helped the company with its defence. Remember, this is a tiny company in a niche industry. The involvement of the biggest business lobbyists in the country tells us a lot about the importance of the principle they knew was at stake.

Thirdly, the defence of the company is very telling. They said “There is simply no limit to how wide the net will be cast: the wife who claims her husband caught COVID-19 from the supermarket checker, the husband who claims his wife caught it while visiting an elder care home."

Well, exactly. Capitalism couldn’t survive if employers were liable for covid infections contracted in the workplace, and the ripple effect of those infections. And they know it.

This case is something of a covid smoking gun, revealing what we always suspected but had never seen confirmed in so many words: the public health imperative of controlling a pandemic virus by making employers liable for some of that control is, and always must be, secondary to capitalist profit.

This ruling is also saying out loud what has been obvious to anyone paying attention for the last two years: employers don’t have a responsibility to keep your family safe from covid. You have that responsibility. And if you give a family member covid that you caught at work and they get sick or die – even if it was a result of law-breaking by your employer – that’s on you buddy.

It is the same old capitalist story: the shunting of responsibility for ills that should be shared across society, including employers in that society, onto individuals.

This ruling essentially helps codify workplace mass infection and justifies it as necessary for the smooth functioning of capitalism.

This is not new. This is where the ‘just a cold’ and the ‘mild' narrative came from. It came from doctors and healthcare experts whose first loyalty was to capitalism. Not to public health. To money, not to lives. Abetted by media who uncritically platformed them.

While this ruling tells us little that we couldn’t already see from the public policy approach of the last two years, it is revealing (and to some extent validating) to see it confirmed by the highest law of the land in the United States.

#covid 19 #capitalism #eugenics #class war

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