2/with someone you don't LIVE WITH? You can't meet a potential date INDOORS OR OUTDOORS? Or a new friend? You can't meet your grandma OUTDOORS? Am I reading this correctly? England, this is not epidemiology, this is psychological torture on a grand scale.
— Dr Naomi Wolf (@naomirwolf) December 2, 2020
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Dr. Naomi Wolf: The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has given those in power the tool needed to finish the job, which is why it’s very important to understand that lockdown is not a quarantine…So we are here at step ten. Let’s look now at a massive euphemism that is allowing for the various power grabs we will explore, that the COVID-19 pandemic facilitates. …
National leaders are using the term “quarantine” to refer to acts of closing down economic activity in entire states and even nations, and of restricting all citizens’ travel to and from entire states lines or across borders to countries. This “quarantine” has in turn shut down engines of economic activity.
The “lockdown” — mislabeled a“quarantine” — as we are experiencing it now, has actually happened before on this planet: just not in open societies or in the contemporary West. Totalitarian and fascist societies have indeed often used mass restrictions of movement, curfews, and other ways of restricting the free association and free movement of citizens…But large-scale totalitarian-style restrictions of citizens’ movements by the state are new to the postwar democratic West and unheard-of in actual open societies; even past pandemics past have not been excuses in such societies to venture into this drastic territory.
