The Vaccine Moment by Paul Kingsnorth

The Vaccine Moment by Paul Kingsnorth, published January 2022, is a great essay on the narratives and stories about Covid-19 over the last two years. He expresses concern about the Austrian lockdown of the ‘unvaxxed’ and the Australian quarantine camps. He writes about conspiracy theory and  The Great Reset. Here are two extracts.

I am watching all this from Ireland, the country which currently has the highest adult vaccination rate in Western Europe, at over 94% of the population. At the same time, curiously, we have some of the highest covid infection rates in Western Europe too. The government has not been able to explain this fact, but it is a trend that has recently manifested in some other highly-vaccinated places too: Gibraltar, Israel, West Flanders. High levels of vaccination do not seem to correspond with low-levels of disease; often quite the opposite.

In other parts of the world, strange things are happening too. Africa, for example. Africa’s population is the largest, fastest-growing and materially poorest of any continent. Few governments there can afford to supply their people with the pricey corporate vaccines which we in the West have staked our nations on. Only 6% of Africa’s population is vaccinated, and national healthcare systems barely exist in many places, yet the WHO describes the continent as ‘one of the least affected regions in the world’ by the virus. In fact, the richer, more ‘developed’ parts of the world often seem to be suffering worst from the pandemic. [page 8]

This is from Covid-19: The Great Reset, by Klaus Schwab, quoted on p31:

Covid-19 is ‘one of the least deadly pandemics the world has experienced over the last 2000 years … [and] the consequences … in terms of health and mortality will be mild.’