From d9c07973649c144f58b4c20b1a6b314ce4813777 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Katharina Fey Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 13:24:42 +0200 Subject: Adding legacy article about pandemic politics --- content/blog/116_1_pandemic_politics.md | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/blog/116_1_pandemic_politics.md diff --git a/content/blog/116_1_pandemic_politics.md b/content/blog/116_1_pandemic_politics.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0f8603d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/116_1_pandemic_politics.md @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +Title: So there's a pandemic +Category: Blog +Date: 2020-04-02 +Tags: culture, politics + +(**Note:** this article was written as is, but never published. I +decided to retro-actively publish it because I felt it was important +to have it in my log of articles, but I also don't think I can really +add much more to this now since the political climate has shifted +quite hard.) + +I've been meaning to publish this article a lot sooner, but here we +are. The last month has been kinda bonkers. Reading this in the +future might feel either funny or wistful. Reading this in the now +must feel redundant. + +Anyway, I've been working on a few things, and also have been thinking +about a few blog posts that I've wanted to write. (One has already +gone up, so once again I'm a literary genius with getting my ordering +right). I'll try to write a bit more, and care less about each +article being as polished as previously. I feel like I've said this +before, so I'll try not to become _too_ spammy. There's still +Twitter… + + +In this pandemic I've seen a lot of rhetoric mirror the security +discourse post 9/11. Additional restrictions on public life are being +advocated for, because they will save lives. Checkpoints, new rules +and regulations, everybody has an opinion on how things should be +running and very frequently run to the state to enforce anything +"health officials" say might work. + +Ultimately this virus is the perfect threat: you can't see it, you +don't even know if you have it, you can endanger people by moving +around freely. And there will never again be a time when "but what +about a virus" won't bu used to justify restrictions on the lives of +people. + +And please don't interpret me saying these things as there being some +conspiracy to enact authoritariasism, as much as that sounds like a +novel you'd read, that's not how the world works. This isn't +plotting, it's simple fascist opportunism. + -- cgit v1.2.3