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Dear Louis,
you might have misunderstood want I meant (or I expressed myself badly).
1) Obviously no one should feel obligated to go on the streets. Everyone
should be free to stay home. It is necessary to employ a service for
people who stay at home. Naturally, we are also in favour of quarantin
meassures for people who are infected (in addition to mass and free
testing etc.).
2) In general it is important to take precautions on health issues. But
this has been also the case in all the last years when there were
influenza epidemic. As you certainly know this has also caused many
vicitims. (152,000 in Europe in the saison 2017/18 alone) Did anyone
call for a mass lockdown at that time? Of course, not!
3) How shall we fight for a better health care system? By staying home?
Hardly! No, by mass actions. For this people (those without health
risks) need to gon on the streets.
4) Finally, do you really think the rulers in China, Europe, etc. impose
mass lockdowns and ban demonstrations because they are concerned about
health? If so, why did they not do it in all the years before when
influenza struck?! Don't you think that there is a connection between
the policy of mass lockdown, the current economic slump (which is of
1929-33 proportions) and the fact that the world has seen the largest
rise of mass protests in 2019 - at least since 1945?! (See for this our
article on a new study:
https://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/global/confirmation-of-revolutionary-character-of-historic-period/)
Please be assured that I wish you a long life!
Am 17.03.2020 um 13:04 schrieb Louis Proyect via Marxism:
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On 3/17/20 7:34 AM, RKOB via Marxism wrote:
In short, South Korea has certainly dealt best with the crisis and
without a mass lock down. Mass and free testing and health care is
crucial.
Well, this is not South Korea here in NYC. I am fucking 75 years old
and had bronchitis lasting a month last October. If it was up to me,
there would be a strict curfew after 8pm. The rules being enforced
right now are not an impediment to workers militias or a general
strike. Instead, it is the backwardness of the working-class. Maybe
the economic collapse and the realization that pandemics are a product
of capitalist contradictions will change that but in the meantime, I
want to live and write until I croak about 10 years from
now--hopefully in my sleep.
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