{"id":10891,"date":"2021-02-17T13:15:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T13:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=10891"},"modified":"2021-02-17T13:15:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T13:15:35","slug":"zerocovids-neoconservative-traits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2021\/02\/17\/zerocovids-neoconservative-traits\/","title":{"rendered":"ZeroCovid\u2019s Neoconservative Traits"},"content":{"rendered":"

So-called \u2018ZeroCovid\u2019 is a \u2018zero-tolerance\u2019 approach to the virus, promising to eliminate community transmission in Ireland. The concept has gained traction among young people, especially, desperate for an end to a seemingly endless cycle of lockdowns, and others worried by the danger posed by the disease itself.<\/span><\/p>\n

The original \u2018zero-tolerance\u2019 policy is identified with Donald Trump\u2019s associate Rudy Giuliani\u2019s tenure as mayor of New York (1994-2001), and involved punishment for even minor infractions.<\/p>\n

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Rudy Giuliani<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most criminologists agree, however, that zero-tolerance, based on the \u2018broken window\u2019<\/a><\/span> theory of policing, made little difference<\/a><\/span> to overall crime rates, which seem to have been falling in New York prior to Giuliani\u2019s period in office. New powers of arrest simply handed police carte blanche<\/em> to remove homeless people from affluent neighbourhoods. Thus Time Square became a safe haven for tourism, but ghettos remained no go.<\/p>\n

Zero-tolerance policies emerged in a neoconservative era alongside \u2018humanitarian interventions,\u2019 culminating in the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003, led by U.S. President George W. Bush, and supported by U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair. Blair also backed a zero tolerance approach to crime<\/a><\/span> in the U.K., and has recently inveigled his way back to prominence as part of the \u2018war\u2019 effort<\/a><\/span> against Covid-19.<\/p>\n

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Tony Blair: "There is no prospect of a return to anything like normal without enabling people to show their Covid status \u2013 vaccinated or tested; and technology allows us to do it with privacy and efficacy." https:\/\/t.co\/dwzrgteQVd<\/a><\/p>\n

— Tony Blair Institute for Global Change (@InstituteGC) February 14, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n