Covid-19: Why is the economy more important than Human lives?!

Despite the Coronavirus pandemic still taking lives, many leaders already can hardly way to reopen their businesses, schools, to try to return to “normal". Austria for example will start gradual return to “normal” within days, although the country neighbors Italy for example.

Leaders focus on the economy as they don’t have any other choice. Most of all they will be judged on their country’s economic performance, unemployment figures and in many countries elections are coming up.

As harsh as it sounds the death of a few thousand - mostly elderly - people won’t sway people as a war, it a great depression would for example. At the end of the day our socio-economic system is set up in a way that everything is judged by GDP figures, growth, stock market performance, unemployment, personal wealth, consumer indexes.

So the leaders have no other choice but to try to revive the system - which was already dying even before the pandemic - with their virtual - money printed without any actual assets backing it up thus leading to terrible inflation - bailout, stimulus packages. They are like tunnel visioned horses that can only go to a single direction even if it leads to a fall off a cliff.

If we want a change, making Human beings more important than material possessions, markets, banks, efficiency and productivity, if we want to rerout the global chariot these blinded leaders are pulling, we need to do it ourselves.

We have to learn the lessons of this pandemic - and all the other crisis situations surrounding us - and start building a new Human society from the grassroots based on completely new values goals, aspirations.

And most importantly we have to do this together, with the help of mutually responsible, mutually complementing cooperation above all our remaining differences, despite everything that rejects us from each other.