By Sandra Russo: Long months ago, when climate change and the impending mega-extinction of species were added to the world agenda, the Italian philosopher Franco Berardi said a phrase that the pandemic brings, like a bottle that rolls in the sand coming out of the sea. He said: "Capitalism is dead, but we are living inside its corpse."
Readers of the times that touch them often have those successes that remain so sharp base for other generations, because they capture not a characteristic, but a dynamic. Like Jauretche and so many others. They don't see the photo in a magazine: they look at the movement of life and the emotions that surround it. And these flashlights are increasingly needed, because what has happened with the information is a blackout, and we have returned to a cave. The world was already difficult to understand when this disaster came about, the origin of which is still under study. Sources increased, opening the possibility that the bat did not finally follow, but originated further south, in areas of intensified industrial agriculture.
There is talk of a fandemic: it is the information that makes the world a cavern, because false news circulates at all levels and since everything is possible now, false news is even more powerful. For information, we lived in quarantine for many decades. We have to take care of others, ourselves and what we hear. The other day a poster was circulated whose text I don't know whose it is but it applies: "Don't believe everything you think." There were pans also in Spain, and that video circulated in which a kid with a Cristinista shirt gave an impeccable speech from his balcony. These people panned in Spain because the government, late, has taken measures that make Spain enter in the rational way and recommended by the scientific community in the face of the pandemic. But in addition, economic rescue measures had been taken, this time not from banks, as in 2009, but from tenants and quarantined workers. And those people protested, because they are Franco or the PP, which destroyed the Spanish health system. And he protested in the midst of the dead, who are even apolitical. Lowness, said the kid. Low skinny, he said. Shame of not being able to understand that it is not time to do the warehouse accounts, in the middle of the earthquake.
In Brazil, the Brazilian Association of Jurists for Democracy (ABJD) formally denounced Jair Bolsonaro before the International Criminal Court, considering that his policies are putting the lives of the Brazilian population at risk. "By action or omission, Bolsonaro puts the lives of the population at risk, perpetrates crimes that require the action of the International Criminal Court to protect the lives of thousands of people," reads an accusatory paragraph from a president who wants to kick his minister out. Health because he prefers to pretend to believe his pastor more. Neopentecostals are asking for concentration camps for the infected.
And it is interesting to start looking at anti-quarantine policies, which are those adopted by the countries whose constituents are the markets and not the representative policy of the entire population, as crimes against humanity. Because they are. Because they have different nuances and different scales, but in each country where the economy was privileged over people's lives, they form a map. A map of the market tightening for everything that is stopped works again, foolish, extemporaneously, because the market does not support abstinence from extraordinary profit, but it must be given methadone.
And there are the dead rotting in the streets of Guayaquil, with a Lenin Moreno whose first reaction to the pandemic was a cut to health, and the second to send paramilitaries to the border with Venezuela. And Trump is thinking about burying the dead in the parks, and thinking about attacks on other countries. And Boris Johnson in intensive care, after buffooning over the virus. What first world are we talking about? If what we also see in the navel of power are bananas.
Everything changed for a long time, because the economic crisis will be perhaps the worst of all, worse than that of the '30s. Which way it changes will have to do with how many people are able to understand their time, which is the one that imploded. States that were so loosely united are forced to fight over respirators, because the federal state did not buy them for rational distribution. Even that has remained in the hands of the market.
So the versus economy or life is false. Who fits in the head. The only thing that should be thinking about the sectors that pressure, although they may also die, is how to join the solution of the crisis. The opposite is to condemn millions and it begins to take the form of mass crime. That should be punished as a crime against humanity. Not just any policy is a policy. Some, which include final solutions, are crimes.
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