Storm warnings # 42 (June 15, 2021)

Storm warnings, anarchist bulletin for the social war, issue 42 (June 2021) came out. It is the full English translation of Avis de Tempêtes.

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Storm warnings, issue 42 (June 15, 2021) :

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“Since its beginnings, the management of the covid-19 epidemic by the authorities has been logically characterized in our latitudes by a predominance of economic imperatives and the preservation of the social order, which even the constantly-invoked medical rationale of the State no longer manages to conceal.
But what is also striking is that the infinite forms of self-organization that could have arisen from different individuals to face the virus, and continue to act in spite of it, were immediately paralyzed by the quicksand of contradictory recommendations and staggering figures: mortality and lethality rates, positivity rates, incidence rates, emergency room and intensive care unit occupancy rates, persistent antibody rates, reinfection rates… and so on. This highlights once again that by starting from the politics of large numbers rather than from oneself – with one’s doubts as well as one’s burning desires – reflection generally ends up being mired in a managerial logic, where productive calculation quickly takes the place of life and its expansive excesses. To break the very model that presides over any statistical reduction of human complexity, to make uniqueness exist beyond averages and to recreate diversity by dismantling the aggregates of data, there are no thirty-six solutions. It is the very terrain where each individual is summoned to bow to a collective superior interest that must be refused. It is one’s own sensitive relationship to life, to death, to illness, to taking risks, to mutual
aid, to the stars, that one has to defend in the face of the social requirement to sacrifice it on the altar of quantity. Whether the latter is called the homeland, economy, common good… or even collective immunity.”