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I'm thinking a lot of the stories I've heard from anarchists older than me about how 9/11 pretty much shut up and sidelined the movement for years to come. This feels similar but with a much more meek culture and with a much more convincing guilt trip to level at those not going along with the state's program. It'd be a shame but it seems likely. A dismal silver lining is that from all appearances the Trump-era authoritarian left seems to be showing its hand as the joke it is (if society's problem is all old men with bad opinions and any level of killing is justified, the solution is as close as your front door) but whatever.

Whether or not the virus becomes a crisis all on its own, a crisis is absolutely here in all the people left without work, kids out of school and world shut down. People have a strange habit of doing whatever it takes to survive and anarchists would do well to help with that. This certainly includes finding our own ways to take care of those at risk around us but it also means confronting the decisions that are fucking over millions made by politicians who have no clue what life on the fringes actually looks like. We will lose friends and get called horrible names for it but @s make it nowhere playing it safe.