20 September

This is a growing pattern in Western democracies. Gated communities. Where the well-off shield themselves from crime and poverty. From the rest of society. Billionaires have bought entire islands and built bunkers to shelter from world collapse from climate change, at the top end of the gated community market. We’re seeing it right now in Sydney, with the pandemic. The West and South-West of the city has been locked down for months, to stop virus getting out. (Remember the virus got into these poorer communities from wealthy suburbs to their East.) And now the ‘roadmap’ out of the pandemic turns every vaccinated person into a gated community. We’re now seeing it as the ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’. As if you can individually choose to be in a pandemic or not. Pandemics are caused by the way the whole society is organised. Using vaccines as some sort of Covid-condom to escape the pandemic is not only repulsive, it also won’t work.