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It's easy to hate humanity, and I often do, but maybe that's too simple. Coronavirus could potentially affect, read: kill, people that I care about, but I am not sure there is much I or the anarchists can do about it. I think someone was trying to make the point in the opioid crisis TOTW a while back that there's mainstream organizations that have more resources and capacity to respond to said crisis so maybe anarchists should focus on what anarchists may actually be better at? Maybe it's ok if we aren't trying to put out all the fires of the world all the time. And what for? Does it get us closer to our anarchist goals? Things go back to normal and our demonstration of mutual aid doesn't carry over into the day to day. It comes to mind that a lot of people that don't identify as any kind of radical or anarchist do disaster relief, are motivated to act spontaneously to help people around them that they don't know personally. Are they just humanist sheeple or is there something there for us to connect with?

Is the PANdemic an opportunity to build bridges across differing value systems and foment the PAN-secession, or is it too morally unhygienic? :p

Also, does anyone remember this? https://aftershockaction.blogspot.com/2007/04/insurrectionary-mutual-aid...

But yeah, what could we do at this stage other than think about and prepare to be ready for other things like this in the future? As someone above commented, chucking purel at people seems condescending and pointless. Wait...maybe Attack with disinfectant is the thing to do! it is pretty nasty stuff...