The horror of permanent quarantine is how perfectly it bleeds into American life—rising despair among the young, the isolation of the old, the failure of the state + society to proactively do anything, the empowerment of a professional caste to arbitrarily enforce the stagnation

— Isaac Wilks 🎤🐢 (@wilks_isaac) October 25, 2020

Well said. Permanent lockdown/quarantine, the weird fantasia that this will work in most countries, is where we’ve arrived because there is not the political nor the social capability currently to attempt any other approach.

However, that does not mean it’s a good one, because it certainly is not. The celebration, nearly, of this absurd level of restriction is something I will never understand.