Our #COVIDcautious lifestyle has increasingly pushed us into social isolation. Which has resulted in a siege mentality of sorts, where it's the two of us against the rest of the world. Family and friends were lost to us due to the push towards the normalization of the ongoing pandemic by a neoliberal order under late stage capitalism. It individualized responsibility, which not only forced us deeper under siege, but also made us increasingly lonely.
We tried to reach out to other people in similar situations, but no one seemed interested to engage with us in a committed way. #MutualAid, #GermPods, #CommunalCare, #CirclesOfTrust, it all sounded good in theory. But they were not happening for us.
What can we do?
We would be really grateful for some leads.
#COVID19 This insidious virus was allowed to rip through the world. In wave after wave of ever more dangerous variants. Millions got infected. Millions died, officially 8 million, a massive undercount. But even more millions got #LongCOVID, some bed bound, others slowly dying, many in fear of incertain futures. We were the ones left by the wayside by this virus, disappeared, ridiculed, gaslit. While the virus got minimized by the state, the public health contract cancelled. Because capitalism.
Call for contributions for a zine looking at the revolutionary potential of a crisis like the #COVID19 pandemic. For that we would like to critically examine some positive examples of community organizing that did happen. A look at #MutualAid, #GermPods, #CommunalCare#CirclesOfTrust projects started during the pandemic. We want to analyze what worked well, what didn't, which potentials for revolutionary prefigurative practice did happen, which were left unexplored. And at how this could scale.