Blanchfield's Response to the Death Drive

The death drive is the need to seek pleasure for its own gain. In freud, there's no more compulsion to seek that eradication rather than this desire of peace and tranquility. There are all these calls for the endemicity of covid which you see in these new policy proposals for eliminating mask mandates and even isolation mandates u once somebody is infected. But we shouldn't rush to this yet, because people's lives are at stake, right? This is all, again, in the name of commerce, of getting things back to normal,. Not that getting people to work so they can earn a wage for subsistence is bad; it just means their profit flows aren't destroyed. And then