Without reproduction there is no production

No to new lockdown and the closure of leisure

Once again, there are restrictions on social life, on leisure - on the sphere of reproduction. Juanma Moreno, President of the Andalusian Regional Government, keeps repeating "that 70% of the country's economic activity takes place between the morning and five o'clock in the afternoon". So, according to Moreno, bars can be closed (and all "non-essential" activity) at 6pm, curfews can be brought forward to 10pm to stop contagion, and they do so from Tuesday 10 November. And they have already banned botellones (meet-ups of mainly young people in public places, usually involving alcohol), they have brought forward the closure of parks in many cities (in Seville at 21:00). It seems that the only thing they are allowing us to do is work.

But they forget one important aspect. We are neither machines nor slaves. To produce, we also need reproduction, we need to recuperate energy, we need to regenerate ourselves. We cannot work day after day without not only a rest (which we are allowed), but also a life beyond work that allows us to recharge our batteries. How do you think we do this? Watching TV? Playing video games? Consuming pornography online (pornography consumption has increased a lot since the beginning of confinement)? Drugging ourselves with alcohol or other drugs?

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