«Their virus, our deads»
We are overwhelmed daily with data about the number of the infected, dead and healed. Even though the structural causes of this epidemic never emerge – the industrial plunder of the natural environment and our relational gap with the other animal spieces – , for the ones who know how to isolate the lies in this ocean of information, some truths stay afloat. Over 70% of deceased from Coronavirus suffered from hypertension. Among 95% of the cases are pre-existing risk factors which can leave people predisposed to its development; particularly sedentariness and stress. The prohibition of going out of the house – with the necessary precautions – creates the conditions for a great number of new sick people. Not to mention the devastating psychological consequences for all those living in unbearable house and family conditions, suppressed by the optimism of the State («Everything will be alright. I stay home»). Moreover, if the importance of the sun and of vitamin D for the immune system is «fake news», then why do the protocols ditributed to the carabinieri and the police advise “at least half an hour of sunlight per-day and, in case its not possible, the consumption of vitamin D”?
Expendables
In Rovereto, two cases of Coronavirus among BRT porters have been registered (one of them is in intensive care in hospital). The logistics enterprise, after a quick and secret «sanification» of the offices (storehouses excluded), expected that their porters would have peacefully kept on working, without even testing them for symptoms. The porters refused, by taking sick leave. Meanwhile, Confindustria (italian chamber of commerce) is pushing to open factories as soon as possible (those factories that have been closed after the wave of strikes that forced the government to stop the «unnecessary production»). Someone is speaking about «unequal sharing of risks». Others, who look on the entire planet and on its huge injustices, speak about «discriminated apocalypse».
We are going to talk at lenght about this
According to the official data, since 2009, 37 billion euros have been deducted from healthcare. Is it because of the objective eloquence of this information, that local newspapers have reported that graffiti appeared in front of Rovereto hospital («Thanks to medical staff, but we don’t forget who made cuts to healthcare») without the habitual swarm of criminalising comments? Beyond the quantitative data, there’s another which is qualitative. If we extend the timeframe a bit, we notice that Healthcare has been not only been cut, but also transformed. Indeed, it was provided, until 1978, a trade relation between preventative medicine and the «Citizens’ Committees» (expression by which they were trying to regularize the several Rank-and-File committees for health on workplaces and on territory, that were born extensively during the struggles in the Seventies). From the meeting between doctors and committees arose, few years before, the most serious and in-depth inquiry about the Icmesa environmental disaster in Seveso * (see note below). Since we are living a mass experience that won’t be abolished any time soon – we’re dealing with the heaviest limitation of freedom in italian history ever -, it’s going to be of fundamental importance for the future to create spaces for critical confrontation between people and medical staff in order to analyze, on the whole and in detail, what caused this epidemic and how the governments and the state scientists dealt with it.
«I wish you a wonderful future»
These are the final words from the letter in which the ‘futurist’ Thomas Frey (ex-engineer for IBM) explains to a ‘science communicator’ that soon the actual passwords will be, thanks to 5G, replaced by «vocal sentences linked to a laser spectrum, by touch resonance, identification through heartbeat, infrared signature» («Corriere Innovazione» 3rd april 2020). «Wherever you’ll be – his conversation partner, professor Derrick De Kerchove added – , you’ll be traced and virtually reconstituted into four dimensions in a complete and constant manner, as 5G can do. You will acquire and store each move you do, like a digital personal unconscious outlined and distributed in databases, from which the decisions (choices, purchases, votes, etc.) will emerge. «But that’s not the end of the world – the professor assures -, it’s only the end of our illusionary and pleasant independence». «This emergency provided the push needed to spread digitalization». On the other hand, «never waste the potential of a crisis». For the ones who rebel to this wonderful future made by human-machines, a definition is already prepared: «Talibans of phisical experience».
England advises
Some antennas for 5G mobile telephones have been burnt in Sparkhill, Birmingham, on thursday 2 april, and in Melling, Merseyside, on friday 3 april. The news has run out in Italy too. The actors of sabotage have been defined «conspiracy theorists», complete with a statement by Google and Facebook, for whom the new 5G infrastructure is fundamental, in order that the online surveillance that they exercise will spread, to real life behaviours and to civic surroundings too. Here there’s no conspiracy theory. It is the accumulation logic itself to ensure that the best way to foresee the consumers’ behaviour – and to sell forecasts to the advertisers and to industry – it’s by programming them.
Greetings from Greece
It’s always wise to learn from your neighbours who have already lived a condition that could fall on you tomorrow. A collective in Athens writes: «They are, and we are, speaking about war. And it’s true. Starting from the increase of black market prices. From the empty shelves in supermarkets, to the food stockpiling. From the «recruitment» of some employees in order to reduce the employer’s loss, to the firing of others. From the coercive jobs without any elementary health protection, to emergency overtime. From the hospitals lack of medical equipment and the inadequacy of nursing staff, to the transformation of hospitals into wards filled with «casualties of war». […] So, «war economy» means a new cycle of memorandum, dismissals, cuts in wages, pensions, social expenditures and privatization. What the State is giving today to stop its bankruptcy, tomorrow we’ll pay in blood».
*Seveso disaster, 10th july 1976. An industrial accident that caused the leak of dioxin, with the consequent dispersion of one of the most toxic chemical substance existing and with serious repercussions on the inhabitants health.
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