Delta variant of politics: Far right jumps on anti-vaccination bandwagon

Today's far right is not conservative: it detests the state and prefers vigilante justice.

You’d think that the whole world could unite against a deadly virus. Covid-19 has already sickened over 200 million people around the world and killed over 4 million. It has now mutated into more contagious forms that threaten to plunge the globe into another spin cycle of lockdown.

Avoiding global catastrophe from the more infectious delta variant of Covid-19 doesn’t require a huge commitment from people and governments. Richer countries just have to ensure more widespread availability of vaccines. And individuals have to get vaccinated.

Covid-19 is not an asteroid on a collision course with the planet. It’s not an