How fear fuels the vaccine wars

Dec 01, 2021 18:22

How fear fuels the vaccine wars, from UnHerd

A sociological perspective, see below for a snippet

(thanks to
lindahoyland for the link!)

Covid has been a revelation and an accelerant
BY Paul Kingsnorth

Perhaps it’s my age, or perhaps it’s just blind prejudice, but when I wake to the news that the Austrian government has interned an entire third of its national population as a danger to public health, a chill runs down my spine.

I look at the news photos of armed, masked, black-clad police stopping people in the streets to ask for their digital papers, and I read stories of others arrested for leaving their own house more than the permitted once a day, and I hear Austrian politicians intoning that those who refuse to accede to the injection are to be shunned and scapegoated until they acquiesce.

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