2021-12-02
This is only superficially about the vaccines. It is clearly primarily about control.
It is still about control even if we accept that governments are acting out of concern for our health (although setting about demonstrators with batons and water-cannon may be thought an unsuitable way to demonstrate such concern).
"I see that in Germany, politicians are also considering interning the 'vaccine hesitant', and are also discussing enforcing vaccination upon every citizen"
"Recently they put up fences in the streets in Hamburg, to separate the Bad Unvaxxed from the Good Vaxxed at the Christmas markets"
"Not that Germans or Austrians have any monopoly on the current march towards authoritarianism in the name of public health. It is entirely globalised"
Paul Kingsnorth writing for Unherd makes the pertinent points.
