The Little Things That Kill Lots Of People
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We just got a kitten who came with a hundred fleas. I microscoped some of the thousand eggs, which was a horror I can’t unsee. We’re able to deal with this because we can clean our house, we have access to veterinary services, and medicine. As a household, we have running water and the toilets flush and all the little things that keep us from itching and sickening and eventually dying. We also have a house, without bombs falling on it. These are little courtesies now extended to this little poosa, but not to lots of humans, apparently.
In Gaza, today, these are the creature comforts denied to millions of people strategically. In any war more people die from secondary causes, like hunger and disease, than from proximate murdering. In any genocide even more so, as in the colonization of the Americas. This lesson was not lost on the ‘Israelis,’ the last colony. The destruction of sanitation, hospitals, and food and water is not a slip-up, it’s their strategy. The bloodiness is executed most bloodlessly. They have meetings about this, and the KPI is number of Gazans killed, ideally all of them.
