Dec. 1st, 2021 at 6:22 PM
A sociological perspective, see below for a snippet
(thanks to
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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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In the meantime, I'm not getting my teeth cleaned and have put off a needed surgery for another year because I'm afraid some refuser with an exemption will infect me and I'll unwittingly transmit the virus to my husband who would never survive a bout with COVID.
...and if these people were to only catch Covid themselves, well, as you say, that's on them...trouble is, they can spread it...