Since people don't understand why there are mass cancellations, neither COVID waves nor weather are the real culprit, the lack of redundancy is. Airlines laid off staff instead of retaining them, even though they got bailout money so this wouldn't happen. https://t.co/wA8czt7Vc2 pic.twitter.com/IYjTmP0CJU

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) April 19, 2022

Yeah, it’s not Covid. That’s what the Covidians point to for everything bad that occurs now. It has no explanatory power for most of what they blame on the disease. “It’s because of Covid” is like how the conservatives used to blame everything bad that occurred on Obama.