I'm not amused anymore

I like it. It keeps the nasties off me when I just want to grab some shit and go. Fuck anybody who has a problem with it.

The other thing, no less disquieting than the first, that the epidemic has caused to appear with clarity is that the state of exception, to which governments have habituated us for some time, has truly become the normal condition. There have been more serious epidemics in the past, but no one ever thought for that reason to declare a state of emergency like the current one, which prevents us even from moving. People have been so habituated to live in conditions of perennial crisis and perennial emergency that they don’t seem to notice that their life has been reduced to a purely biological condition and has not only every social and political dimension, but also human and affective. A society that lives in a perennial state of emergency cannot be a free society. We in fact live in a society that has sacrificed freedom to so-called “reasons of security” and has therefore condemned itself to live in a perennial state of fear and insecurity.

Also haha leaf you have to stay in canada.

Now you Cant come across the boarder to shoop at trader joes for half the price of your Canadian stores.

Or do they still allow shooping runs across the boarder?

It is not surprising that for the virus one speaks of war. The emergency measures obligate us in fact to life in conditions of curfew. But a war with an invisible enemy that can lurk in every other person is the most absurd of wars. It is, in reality, a civil war. The enemy is not outside, it is within us.

What is worrisome is not so much or not only the present, but what comes after. Just as wars have left as a legacy to peace a series of inauspicious technology, from barbed wire to nuclear power plants, so it is also very likely that one will seek to continue even after the health emergency experiments that governments did not manage to bring to reality before: closing universities and schools and doing lessons only online, putting a stop once and for all to meeting together and speaking for political or cultural reasons and exchanging only digital messages with each other, wherever possible substituting machines for every contact — every contagion — between human

god you're a creep.

And you see the real effect of this. Is that normally at 5-6pm on a grocery store you can weave through all the aisles, fill up your cart, and go through the self checkout without another human being getting within 20 feet of you. But this has artificially stretched the peak shopping hours and made the after-dinner shopping crowd MORE DENSE.
The dystopian part is being instructed by people at every turn of where to go and where to stand and seeing fucking propaganda posters everywhere. The store is MORE CRAMPED because of their stupid social distancing initiative.

>I just got back from the grocery store and they've started doing that maximum social distancing autism at the store thing here now

I've already been doing those practices for a decade now, because I'm surrounded by alien foreigners.

I feel you bro. I guess where I live my shopping experience is different.

Wait until the perspex screens go up in front of the cashiers - you will think you're in a bank, lol.

incel