Immunodemocracy
As we sway between doom and denial, we are stuck in what Lauren Berlant calls a ‘State of Impasse’ — a moment where existing social imaginaries and practices no longer produce the outcomes they once did, but no new imaginaries or practices have yet been created.
Medium • Calling for a More-Than-Human Politics
Why? A March 22 paper from a SAGE subcommittee—kept hidden from the public at the time, but released months later—offered an answer. Only by pretending the virus posed a significant risk to everyone could governments ensure the public would accept lockdowns.
Alex Berenson • Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
It is not enough to be granted the right not to be abused by our governments without the corresponding right to receive assistance; not enough to possess civil and political rights without social and economic ones as well.