@melsbells@tenforward.social While that is true, decentralized authority structures are still authority structures (that people look up to and expect solutions from), just often less functional ones, therefore less effective.

AFAIK a lot of communities in Africa have fared *much* better with the pandemic despite having way less access to means, because local communities (often in the absence of authority structures) took the responsibility upon themselves to protect the entire community. There was no authority to look towards and expect to fix it.