On Panopticism

            

Quarantine in a leprosy-ridden town consisted of each family being locked inside their home from the outside, by a syndicate. They were to provide for themselves with provisions they had prepare, for 6 days until the perfuming. Living in a modern pandemic, this seems like a joke. I understand that perfumes can make seem one like the bad smells or diseases have been defeated; but we have to quarantine for at least fourteen days. If the same thing applies to leprosy, they are simply re-exposing themselves too early to the disease.

The Comparison between the leprosy-causing plague and covid-19 of the 21^st century is quite interesting. I cant say that we have been monitored as closely as plague towns would have been. In new York city, there is simply too many people and different type of architecture for a panopticon type of monitoring to be possible – unless there was a medium between police and Department of Health ages, that rode on million dollar firetruck ladders to stare us down in our residence. But the defunding of police has not been put into process.

              The panopticon works in the same way that a predator would in the wild – the same way that a herbivore in the middle of a treeless Sahara knows it is unsafe. By default, a creature being visible goes against its instinct. Prey animals have developed mechanisms to protect them – natural camouflage, allowing them to blend in unrestricted to a confined space. For a human, that’s also an animal, knowing they are constantly visible and being watched can cause major mental stress.  If that were the case for this century, im sure some lawsuits were to happen.