Covid, Health Pass, Control and EnforcementSome thoughts on the government announcements
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https://lundi.am/Covid-pass-sanitaire-controle-et-repressionAs Emmanuel Macron announced last Monday, the strategy to fight the 4th epidemic wave will be based on key values: threat and blackmail, control and repression. There is much to say and think about what the Health Pass will produce and the thousand invisible borders it will create around us, the division between good citizens and marginal co-responsible for the epidemic. For the government, this is a win-win situation: on the one hand, it is a way of bringing its population to heel in order to get the economic machine moving again, and on the other hand, it is a way of creating an opposition that is easily taxed with conspiracy and vitiated by the extreme right [1]. We have received this "mood bill", whose observation we share but not whose meager hopes we do not: the dynamic between "society" and the margins seems to us to be at the heart of the government's mechanism, and it is therefore this division that we believe must be exploded. Nevertheless, it represents a relevant contribution to the ongoing debate.
On Monday, the announcements were made: mandatory vaccination for health care workers, third dose for those vaccinated at the beginning of the year, vaccination campaigns for high school students, curfews in Martinique and Reunion Island, PCR tests to be paid for and, as the icing on the cake, verification of "vaccination status" for access to most public places. In the next few months, we may well find ourselves willy-nilly in the world of the future, with a health pass to back it up.
It's going to look like a first-person testimony, a bit embarrassing, but that's the nature of this kind of political operation: historical completion of the control society, of the cybernetic world and of the smart city, which assigns us to our miserable individual condition.
Here we are: no vaccination obligation, but we will have to carry our precious health pass to spend our meager savings at the supermarket, to connect to cultural flows at the cinema or in an official concert hall, to work in the medical sector, to travel by plane, TGV or bus, to maintain the machine at the sports club. "We don't force you to do anything, you can do as you like, but if you make the wrong choice, life will be much more unpleasant.
We finally reach this soft apartheid which sees the smart people accessing society by right and the losers (without a smart phone, suspected of being backward, conspiracy freaks, irresponsible reactionaries, well or fountain poisoners) sliding irremediably to the margins. Crucial political question: how to populate them?
I had the covid, a stroke of luck without much damage. I had nothing against the principle of vaccination, I don't believe that my DNA will be mixed with that of the reptilian Bill Gates at each injection. But I will refuse this forced deportation to the next world. Because the virus, as a deadly living particle, will always take less life than the great capitalist machine that we are forced to support by funding its most dynamic sectors (pharmaceutical industry, control sectors, new tracking technologies, and other small gadgets that are necessarily smarter than us). Because I don't like to run when Macron whistles at me on TV. Because I don't like to fill out certificates.
I hope that all the people thrown out of this world will give shape to rebel geographies, in all the interstices, right next to the obligatory passages; outside the shopping malls, in spaces outside the frame, etc. Little hope: what will the comrades of the friendly places with a street name do, who will have in front of them a new arsenal to impose the administrative closing of any place that disturbs, with the infamous mark of the poisoners? There is little hope: the psychic catastrophe implied by this massive locking down or securitization of existence (I have a badge at school, I have a badge at the swimming pool, I have a badge at the concert, I have a badge to take my train, I potentially have to be able to justify my identity everywhere) will generate its share of "lone wolves" as they say; all those people that the certainty of not belonging to that world will easily lead to more or less visible outbursts of rage or apocalyptic caliphates, and to the deflagration of acts of violence More human pieces are thrown away to relaunch the anti-terrorist mechanics: thus a little more intelligent cameras, a little more tracking, a little more means for the forces of order, a little more president on TV.
The world is closing in a little more. "With your Health Pass, you who enter here abandon all hope. Except perhaps that of secession, since they throw us in. So we find ourselves down in the half-world.
[1] We invite those who might still have doubts to watch the first broadcast of La Une TV last night, which brought together some forty figures of the "movement". If some of the names are unknown to you, the live tweet of the extractor will allow you to find your way around between the muses of the extreme Catholic right, former gendarmerie putschists, former reality TV stars who are hunters of the illuminati, disappointed Soralians, former yellow vests who are now convinced that the yellow vests were in fact a manipulation of the world government, etc.
That these self-proclaimed representatives are rotten apples obviously implies only themselves and not the thousands of demonstrators who marched this Saturday against the new government measures. It remains to be seen whether they will manage to recover this spontaneous movement or whether they will sink into the limbo of their respective delusions.