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ruin OP wrote

Thanks for the links.

Of these, I think I lean most closely to Agamben’s take that Robinson writes on.

I tend to see any support of a furthering of the security state as authoritarian at best and totalitarian at worst.

This isn’t simply a factor of social distancing and closures, but also a deeper psychological alienation furthered by the medical response to the virus as a villainous foe to be overcome. A discrete threat with a discrete medical solution. This type of thought continues us down the problematic road of humanist anthropocentric thought that isolates and subjugates us in the first place.

Agamben’s piece on medicine sums up the religious aspects of the current approach in very few words and is well worth a read.

Agamben: Medicine as Religion

I too work in what is considered an essential business and I had a fucking miserable case of covid. I know a couple folks who have passed, and I take the illness seriously.

While don’t fault anyone for doing what they feel is necessary to stay healthy, I also won’t advocate for or support authoritarian mandates concerning human bodily autonomy.

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ruin OP wrote

I see your point and I’d wager that as TW had mentioned, people in different locales will have very different experiences regarding “lockdowns”.

I’m in a very rural area (just a few hundred people) so things haven’t changed much up here. On the other hand when I travel to a very large liberal city nearby for work it’s nearly a ghost town and everyone is paranoid. My folks live in the southern US and it’s been as if nothing ever happened...

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