We should be calling COVID "Cement Lung" [View all]
Whatever might work.
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We should be calling COVID "Cement Lung"
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Friday December 31, 2021 · 3:14 PM EST
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No one says "coal workers' pneumoconiosis" - it's Black Lung. When you hear “Black Lung,” you immediately see a diseased dirty lung saturated with coal dust in your mind.
And COVID should be "Cement Lung."
"Cement Lung" communicates a visceral graphic message of what this disease does to your lungs. Makes them inelastic. Freezes them. Fills them full of crap. You are then beyond the reach of medical aid. That can't be fixed.
You want to risk getting Cement Lung? Do you want your elderly parents to get it? Do you want your children in the hospital with Cement Lung? Let those visual images float around inside your brain awhile and see if you still like the idea of being unvaccinated or unmasked.
Let the GOP wear the label of the Cement Lung party. Might be a little more difficult to fight mandates that protect you from Cement Lung.
The Power of Naming:
Donald Trump knows the power of branding and actually makes huge profits by selling the use of his name. But the power of naming and branding can be a double-edged sword: when a president creates and perpetuates real human disasters, we can truthfully attach his name to them and allow well-earned disaster branding to spread naturally.
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But we need not feel powerless in the face of the Trump government. The citizens of the United States have a power beyond the ballot box: the power of naming, and of disaster branding. Acting together, we can give a brand name to all those major fires, storms, floods, and droughts perpetuated and caused by Mr. Trump’s actions against the worldwide effort to end those disasters.
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We are not accustomed to using the power that millions of ordinary people have to name what is harming them and their planet and the futures of their children and grandchildren. But the time has come to use that power. Just say it.
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