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I have no interest in either banning or responding on a point-by-point basis to the stuff that comrades have been forwarding from Michael Probsting but I am now watching a live feed of a protest of mainly young white and black people at the 3rd precinct in Minneapolis. It is nonsense to think that social distancing, or what people like Probsting and the Off-Guardian website call a "shutdown", would inhibit people from taking to the streets if there was a genuine motivation to act. Or that Bill Gates had some secret plans to track every last soul through a quantum based computer to prevent a revolution. It was simply a combination of being gobsmacked by the massive trauma of so many people dying in such a short time, plus no obvious issue that would bring people out. My guess is that the young people confronting the cops are smart enough to keep a reasonable distance from each other and that most of them are probably in a housing situation with peers rather than with older relatives. In any case, you can expect a lot more of this in the months and years ahead of us as capitalism continues its death rattle.
As for me, I just learned that I tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies so that would presumably keep me immunized. Then again, I don't get around much any more, as Duke Ellington put it.
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