Difficult to know where to start with the magnificence of what Ed Yong has achieved here. I’ve never seen a…

Difficult to know where to start with the magnificence of what Ed Yong has achieved here. I’ve never seen a better popular piece on the inseparability of pandemics and politics, of disease and society. /1 @RealOzSAGE #auspol @CrabbBrendan @Globalbiosec https://t.co/WW43WtbeCC

If you see disease in this social and political way, it was never a surprise that libertarian politicians grasped vaccines and turned them into ‘biomedical weapons’ in this pandemic. It was obvious that the second vaccines arrived, basic public health work would be ditched. /2

And the use of basic germ theory and technology to individualise disease and medicine, we’re seeing it with the ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ again now. Well worth your reading time. /end