Here's the latest headlines from the Murdoch press in Australia:

News: People who refuse to get vaccinated are no longer decent members of society.

All other mainstream media outlets in Australia - and i mean all - echo this sentiment.

Forget about how we were all so terribly wrong with our vilification of anyone suggesting Covid may have been a lab-leak - lets' just move onto the next target!

As Dan mentions, it's illogical to blame the Delta variant on the unvaccinated - for a start, Delta was around before vaccines were widely available. Secondly, if anything, it's vaccines that are likely to drive the rise of variants - exactly the same way the overuse of antibiotics did with infections.

But at least we can shift blame from those who caused Covid in the first place - mainstream scientists messing around with risky GoF experiments - and the media/experts for covering the leak up - which allowed it that crucial space it needed to spread around the world.

The sad truth is that society is sick with hatred. At our best we can be uplifted by positivity - but that's kinda hard and takes talent to inspire. It's way easier to give into a darker urge that can also motivate and unite - that's vilification.

This belongs in Dan's fiction section, but Lord of the Flies highlighted how society doesn't really need God to control its members - but boy it needs the devil.