Final Word from Monday, May 31, 2021

The Czech government's covid reopening policy is based almost entirely on achieving collective immunity through vaccination, not infection. The health ministry even employs disinformation to further this aim by saying that it would take only a matter of weeks to develop a vaccine against a new mutation. It would in fact take months for it to arrive in the CR, and it's entirely possible that "collectivized" immunity through vaccine instead of infection will make the population more vulnerable to a new mutation, because of the way spike proteins react to vaccines. As Timothy Snyder wrote in Bloodlands, Joseph Stalin thought initially that farm collectivization would bring security and prosperity to the Soviet Union. He failed to realize in time that it was instead killing people. It was only then, according to Snyder, that Stalin decided to use collectivization to rid himself of Ukrainians. The result was the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33, in which an estimated 3.3m people died. [ Czech Republic farming collective community natural USSR Russia Ukraine Europe Between Hitler and Stalin great 1933 campaign variant ]