Unlike Australia, Madagascar is not a rich nation. The country is experiencing severe drought and famine, they've had few lockdowns, and less than 1% of its population is Covid vaccinated. So why are they doing so much better than Australia?

We are a family of gardeners, fermenters, goatherds, writers and unschoolers who are currently travelling Australia by bicycle. We are telling this story in good faith but it is by no means complete. We are not journalists, rather travelling storytellers who draw on Indigenous cosmologies and lifeways (including our own heritages) to help keep the world from being further enclosed by state-corporate collusion and values. There has never been a proper cost/benefit analysis of the corporate state's approach to Covid. We do refer to some data in this piece but do not believe data should be the only metric used in health policies as it does not, to our minds, honour the whole human or the whole story.