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The Worst Virus Ever…
Authority
About COVID-19, authoritarian delusions and the
shitty world we live in…
Anonymous
March 13, 2020
The macabre death toll increases day by day, and in the imagi-
nation of each person takes place the sensation, at first vague then
always a little stronger, of being more and more threatened by the
Great Grim Reaper. For hundreds of millions of human beings, this
Anonymous
imagining is certainly not new, that of death that can strike anyone,
The Worst Virus Ever… Authority
at any time. Just think of the damned of the earth sacrificed daily
About COVID-19, authoritarian delusions and the shitty world we
on the altar of power and profit: those who survive under State
live in…
bombs, in the midst of endless wars over oil or mineral resources,
March 13, 2020
those who coexist with invisible radioactivity caused by accidents
Retrieved on 2020-03-28 from anarchistsworldwide.noblogs.org or nuclear waste, those who cross the Sahel or the Mediterranean
Originally published on Nantes Indymedia on 13.03.2020 via Sans and are locked up in concentration camps for migrants, those who
Attendre Demain, translated into English by Anarchists are reduced to pieces of flesh and bone by the misery and devas-
Worldwide. tation caused by agro-industry and the extraction of raw materi-
als…And even in the lands that we inhabit, in times not very long
theanarchistlibrary.org ago, we have known the terror of butcheries on an industrial scale,
bombings, extermination camps…always created by the thirst for
power and wealth of States and bosses, always faithfully set up by until the emergency measures were definitively incorporated into
armies and police. French law. What will this new emergency lead us to?
But no, today we are not talking about those desperate faces that A virus is a biological phenomenon, but the context in which
we constantly try to keep away from our eyes and minds, nor about it originates, its spread and its management are social issues. In
a history that is now past. Terror is beginning to spread in the cra- the Amazon, Africa or Oceania, entire populations have been ex-
dle of the kingdom of commodities and social peace, and it is caused terminated by viruses brought by settlers, while the settlers im-
by a virus that can attack anyone – although of course, not every- posed their domination and way of life. In the rain forests, armies,
one will have the same opportunities to cure themselves. And in merchants and missionaries pushed the people – who previously
a world where people are used to lying, where the use of figures occupied the territory in a scattered way – to concentrate around
and statistics are one of the main means of media manipulation, schools, in villages or towns. This greatly facilitated the spread of
in a world where truth is constantly hidden, mutilated and trans- devastating epidemics. Today, half the world’s population lives in
formed by the media, we can only try to put the pieces together, to cities, around the temples of Capital, and feeds on the products of
formulate hypotheses, try to resist this mobilization of minds and agro-industry and intensive livestock farming. Any possibility of
ask the question: where are we going? self-sufficiency has been eradicated by States and the market econ-
In China, and then in Italy, new repressive measures were omy. And as long as the mega-machine of domination continues to
imposed daily, until they reached the limit that no State had dared function, human existence will be increasingly subjected to disas-
to cross yet: the ban on leaving one’s home and on moving around ters that are not very “natural”, and to a management of them that
the country except for work reasons or absolute necessity. Not will deprive us of any possibility of determining our lives.
even during war would there have been consent to the acceptance Unless…in an increasingly dark and disturbing scenario, human
of such far-reaching measures by the population. But this new beings decide to live as free beings, even if it is just for a few hours,
totalitarianism has the face of Science and Medicine, of neutral- days or years before the end – rather than shutting themselves up
ity and common interest. Pharmaceutical, telecommunications in a “natural” world, of fear and submission. As did the prisoners
and new technology will find the solution. In China, the use of in 30 Italian prisons, faced with the ban on visiting rooms imposed
geo-locating to report any movement and any case of infection, because of Covid-19, by revolting against their jailers, demolishing
facial recognition and e-commerce are helping the State to ensure and burning their cages and, in some cases, managing to escape.
that every citizen is locked up in their own home. Today, the NOW AND ALWAYS FIGHTING FOR FREEDOM!
same states that have based their existence on confinement, war
and massacre, including of their own population, impose their
“protection” through prohibitions, borders and armed men. How
long will this situation last? Two weeks, a month, a year? We
know that the state of emergency declared after the attacks
[translation note: originally imposed in 2015 following the Islamic
State terrorist attacks in Paris] has been extended several times,
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