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 This is a collective note-taking effort to document and learn from the organising of solidarity in response to the urgency of care precipitated by the pandemic of Coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2). The first round of notes, protocols and instructions, or sessions as we categories them here in the syllabus, reflects, in particular, the experience of organising amidst outbreak and lockdown in Italy. In keeping with the spirit of this syllabus, we focus on those practices that foreground care, labour, technology and disobedience. They are meant to offer both practical guidance and inspiration to organising and living with the outbreak elsewhere. But are also meant to help articulate demands to shift our societies from capitalism, productivism, patriarchy and racism to societies centred on collectivising the shared task of regenerating the interdependent well-being of humans and nature.
 
+# Contributing to the collective note-taking:
 Unlike the remaining topics in this Pirate Care Syllabus, this one is closely following developments that are unfolding. It is thus partial and provisional to the Italian, Croatian and British context from which we write. However, we encourage others to contribute to building a larger body of notes documenting solidarity in the time of quarantine. Please get in touch with us and propose practices you would like to document, either through our email info@pirate.care, [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/pirate.care.network/), [Facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/191818791894368/), Telegram or Matrix.
 
 # Flatten the curve, grow the care
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 However, we want to claim that "Flatten the Curve" is not enough. Not only do we want to keep the spread of the contagion within the limits of health care system's capacity, but rather that the social crisis resulting from the response to and the aftermath of the pandemic will require a re-focusing of societies on modalities and capacities of care. Something that we think is already pre-figured in the practices and forms of organisation documented here. Hence, "Grow the Care".
 
-# A health care crisis
+# A common health care crisis
 
 The Coronavirus outbreak has demonstrated the weaknesses of the public health system that has far too few ICU beds and ventilator and respirators to deal with the sudden spike in infections, thus contributing to increased mortality from the outbreak. In Italy, the system is so overstretched that the ERs are not able to timely attend to acute conditions such as heart attacks and many surgeries have been postponed, leading to many additional preventable deaths. Time-critical procedures as pregnancy terminations are being postoponed too.
 
 Medical staff at hospitals is working under conditions of war-like duress - under-equipped, overworked and overexposed - leading to a growing number of them getting infected and having to go into isolation and requiring assistance. Service workers - particularly, cleaners, carers, domestic workers, deliverers, workers in grocery stores, just as many others who can't work from home - are exposed to the contagion.
 
-The vulnerability of many at-risk groups is contributing to the crisis. First, there is the elderly. Then there are those who are undocumented migrants and can be refused medical care. Those who don't have medical care coverage and face a crippling debt if they need testing or end up in hospitals. Those who don't live in a home of their own: homeless, refugees, elderly in retirement homes, women in safe houses or foreign students on campuses. But also many who cannot avoid to work: cleaners, workers in grocery stores, food industry and transport, carers - and industrial workers, who are asked to continue as nothing is happening.
+The vulnerability of many at-risk groups is contributing to the crisis. First, there is the elderly and those living with other health conditions. Then there are those who are undocumented migrants and can be refused medical care. Those who don't have medical care coverage and face a crippling debt if they need testing or end up in hospitals. Those who don't live in a home of their own: homeless, refugees, elderly in retirement homes, women in safe houses or foreign students on campuses. But also many who cannot avoid to work: cleaners, workers in grocery stores, food industry and transport, carers - and industrial workers, who are asked to continue as nothing is happening.
 
 # A combined crisis of care, work and environment
 
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 But there are also who suffer mentally ill, disabled and suffering severe conditions for whom remaining isolated to home is not feasible. And then there are those who face domestic violence for whom the lockdown equals continued abuse. The violence will only grow as neither adults nor kids can pursue their interests outside of home nor can socialise. The isolation without a radical rethink of how we organise self-determinative work, free time and conviviality will start to leave its psychological toll.
 
-# Organising for an alternative future
+# Organizing for an alternative future
 
 The pandemic is likely to push an already unstable global economy into a tailspin, triggering measures to restore capitalist accumulation that will, judging from the past, might bring about further reductions to the public care system, dismantling of labour protections, discouraging civic life and deepening inequality and poverty. The fallout might set back efforts to counter and adapt to climate change that might lead to comparable disasters. Against these prospects, the loss of organising capacity to effectively make political claims while the outbreak is ongoing might prove crippling.