Shit Is Getting Real!: Deep Adaptations For These Trying Times
I resisted taking COVID-19 seriously in the beginning. Processing the scope and magnitude of the changes it so rapidly initiated and making big decisions based on rumors that continued to become substantiated went against the way that I try to navigate the happenings of our world. Only a month ago, I was dismissing the news as hype and hysteria, not believing in its urgency or that nations would ever really take such drastic policy measures so quickly, particularly when they went against the logic of capitalism. Yet, it has happened, in many ways quite literally overnight, and we¹ are now living a new reality. All over the world, commercial flights have been grounded until further notice; we’ve stopped going to work and assembling in large groups; and we now think more deeply about the ethical implications of how we consume. Suddenly, governments are able to gather the monetary resources for massive stimulus packages, pausing debt payments, and providing citizens with basic income. One of the struggles of political organizing and movement building has always been engaging in the …