Bruce Trigg
Bruce Trigg
Anarchists and Vaccines
Anarchists & Anti-Vaxxers Share a Distrust of the Medical Establishment & the State
A four year old from Colorado recently died from influenza. According to news accounts, the child’s mother frequented Facebook sites run by groups promoting conspiracy theories about the dangers of vaccines and conventional medical treatments; so-called anti-vaxxers.
Instead of giving the anti-viral medication prescribed by the child’s pediatrician, the mother followed online advice she received and treated her child with home remedies involving placing cucumbers and potatoes on his head.
Apr 10, 2020 Read the whole text...
Bruce Trigg
Liberating Public Health from the State
Anarchist Solutions in the Age of COVID
Most public health concerns are ultimately local. Mutual aid projects and autonomous zones from New York City to Seattle, and from Chiapas and Rojava have shown how democratically controlled, non-hierarchical communities provide not only food and shelter but also health education, training and tools for people to care for themselves and their communities, families and comrades.
Oct 1, 2020 Read the whole text...