Vaccine Mandates are a Systemic Risk - by Applied Complexity Science - Applied Complexity Science
We are still in the thick of it. We didn’t nip COVID in the bud. Some believe it’s not possible and was never possible to stop this or any viral contagion. I disagree, but a lot hinges on what we mean by “possible”. Save that for a future essay. In any event, it was clear in mid-2020 that governments were banking on a vaccine to solve the problem. Not only that, but it is clear that a vaccination strategy had other side-benefits from perspective of central government, for instance the rationale to implement more granular digital tracking and bookkeeping for command and control purposes of all kinds, that made them doubly attractive as an agenda-fit solution.
We are still in the thick of it. We didn’t nip COVID in the bud. Some believe it’s not possible and was never possible to stop this or any viral contagion. I disagree, but a lot hinges on what we mean by “possible”. Save that for a future essay. In any event, it was clear in mid-2020 that governments were banking on a vaccine to solve the problem. Not only that, but it is clear that a vaccination strategy had other side-benefits from perspective of central government, for instance the rationale to implement more granular digital tracking and bookkeeping for command and control purposes of…
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