11 July

All living things when under threat seek shelter, if they can’t fight off the threat. If all of society had sheltered for even 6 weeks when this pandemic started, it would now be over. Why didn’t it? Because it can’t, the majority of society can’t survive a day without ‘work’. We call that the ‘economy’. We have material abundance beyond the imagination of the generations before us, and yet our societies are so lacking in resilience that we can’t do the one basic act of all living things - take shelter. This crisis is caused by ‘the economy’, not a virus. What does the economy call shelter? It calls it ‘lockdown’. As if shelter is a prison. We urgently need to fight the economy.