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Title: The Worst Virus Ever… Authority
Author: Anonymous
Date: March 13, 2020
Language: en
Topics: France, COVID-19
Source: Retrieved on 2020-03-28 from https://anarchistsworldwide.noblogs.org/post/2020/03/16/france-the-worst-virus-ever-authority/
Notes: Originally published on Nantes Indymedia on 13.03.2020 via Sans Attendre Demain, translated into English by Anarchists Worldwide.

Anonymous

The Worst Virus Ever… Authority

The macabre death toll increases day by day, and in the imagination of

each person takes place the sensation, at first vague then always a

little stronger, of being more and more threatened by the Great Grim

Reaper. For hundreds of millions of human beings, this imagining is

certainly not new, that of death that can strike anyone, at any time.

Just think of the damned of the earth sacrificed daily on the altar of

power and profit: those who survive under State bombs, in the midst of

endless wars over oil or mineral resources, those who coexist with

invisible radioactivity caused by accidents or nuclear waste, those who

cross the Sahel or the Mediterranean and are locked up in concentration

camps for migrants, those who are reduced to pieces of flesh and bone by

the misery and devastation caused by agro-industry and the extraction of

raw materials…And even in the lands that we inhabit, in times not very

long ago, we have known the terror of butcheries on an industrial scale,

bombings, extermination camps…always created by the thirst for power and

wealth of States and bosses, always faithfully set up by armies and

police.

But no, today we are not talking about those desperate faces that we

constantly try to keep away from our eyes and minds, nor about a history

that is now past. Terror is beginning to spread in the cradle of the

kingdom of commodities and social peace, and it is caused by a virus

that can attack anyone – although of course, not everyone will have the

same opportunities to cure themselves. And in a world where people are

used to lying, where the use of figures and statistics are one of the

main means of media manipulation, in a world where truth is constantly

hidden, mutilated and transformed by the media, we can only try to put

the pieces together, to formulate hypotheses, try to resist this

mobilization of minds and ask the question: where are we going?

In China, and then in Italy, new repressive measures were imposed daily,

until they reached the limit that no State had dared to cross yet: the

ban on leaving one’s home and on moving around the country except for

work reasons or absolute necessity. Not even during war would there have

been consent to the acceptance of such far-reaching measures by the

population. But this new totalitarianism has the face of Science and

Medicine, of neutrality and common interest. Pharmaceutical,

telecommunications and new technology will find the solution. In China,

the use of geo-locating to report any movement and any case of

infection, facial recognition and e-commerce are helping the State to

ensure that every citizen is locked up in their own home. Today, the

same states that have based their existence on confinement, war and

massacre, including of their own population, impose their “protection”

through prohibitions, borders and armed men. How long will this

situation last? Two weeks, a month, a year? We know that the state of

emergency declared after the attacks [translation note: originally

imposed in 2015 following the Islamic State terrorist attacks in Paris]

has been extended several times, until the emergency measures were

definitively incorporated into French law. What will this new emergency

lead us to?

A virus is a biological phenomenon, but the context in which it

originates, its spread and its management are social issues. In the

Amazon, Africa or Oceania, entire populations have been exterminated by

viruses brought by settlers, while the settlers imposed their domination

and way of life. In the rain forests, armies, merchants and missionaries

pushed the people – who previously occupied the territory in a scattered

way – to concentrate around schools, in villages or towns. This greatly

facilitated the spread of devastating epidemics. Today, half the world’s

population lives in cities, around the temples of Capital, and feeds on

the products of agro-industry and intensive livestock farming. Any

possibility of self-sufficiency has been eradicated by States and the

market economy. And as long as the mega-machine of domination continues

to function, human existence will be increasingly subjected to disasters

that are not very “natural”, and to a management of them that will

deprive us of any possibility of determining our lives.

Unless…in an increasingly dark and disturbing scenario, human beings

decide to live as free beings, even if it is just for a few hours, days

or years before the end – rather than shutting themselves up in a

“natural” world, of fear and submission. As did the prisoners in 30

Italian prisons, faced with the ban on visiting rooms imposed because of

Covid-19, by revolting against their jailers, demolishing and burning

their cages and, in some cases, managing to escape.

NOW AND ALWAYS FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM!