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"The aim of terror, and of its implementation, is to extort from human beings a total adaptation to its very principle, so that they recognize at the very end only one goal: self-preservation. The more, and unscrupulously, humans have in mind their survival, the more they become psychological puppets of a system whose sole objective is to stay in power.”
- Leo Löwenthal, 1945

2 new pages on my site:

Cornonavirus in France:

http://dialectical-delinquents.com/coronavirus-in-france/

Contestavirus – a constantly updated chronology of global expressions of contestation against the new conditions of misery:

http://dialectical-delinquents.com/contestavirus/

Above you say "“social distancing” is a necessary tool to help stop the spread of this virus". I'd like to know the logic and rationality behind this. The only social distancing I can see which is necessary are gloves and masks - the rest only makes sense as an insanely authoritarian sledgehammer to crack a nut. The virus is hardly airborne - virtually all the evidence suggests that it's spread by droplets and touch. Keeping that metre or two away from others is not at all necessary if you wear gloves and a mask. How can being in the same place as someone else if you don't touch them with bare skin and are incapable of being effected by droplets or effecting the other person with droplets influence the spread of the virus? Droplets can't effect anybody if you've got a mask. Touching someone's sleeve with a glove is not going to harm them unless the glove itself is infected, but then you should never touch anything because it's impossible to disinfect your clothes, your keys, your front door, or whatever, every time you touch something that might possibly be infected and then, after disinfecting yourself you're still holding the bottle of sanitiser, which itself could be infected. You'd go insane (and many are going insane) if you thought about and acted against all the chances of being infected.
The virus doesn't survive in water nor is it carried in the air. Social distancing is mostly a state and media-imposed ideology to justify the massive intensification of alienation. And this ideology of "confinement" has invaded people's minds, fears and discourse so they can't even begin to think logically. Fear eats the soul, body, mind and all social life.

The only health that submission to fear improves is the health of the state.