Why anti-vaxxers are starting new lives in exclusive tropical communes
telegraph.co.ukCovid sceptics to seek freedom from ‘5G, chemtrails, fluoridated water, mandatory vaccinations, and healthcare mandates’, as one promotional video puts it.Since the pandemic began, vaccine refuseniks from everywhere from Germany to Switzerland, Australia and America have moved in their hundreds to this neighbourhood seven miles from Caazapá, a ranching town, where armed guards patrol the commune’s newly built borders.
On the African archipelago of Zanzibar, part of Tanzania, another group, Liberty Places, partly funded by British anti-vaccine activist Michael Yeadon, is similarly promising to build a ‘life raft’ community where people disenchanted by coronavirus lockdowns and vaccine requirements can escape the ‘Covid lunacy’ of Europe for a ‘new free life’.Meanwhile, a German doctor is attempting to organise Tanzanian safaris for the Querdenker or ‘lateral thinker’ movement – Germany’s answer to QAnon – while ‘awakened’ Brits have begun seeking to date, share houses and homeschool their children with others who share their beliefs.
These self-described freedom seekers are on a mission to reclaim the word ‘woke’ – usually associated with Western social progressives – and are, in some cases, moving thousands of miles away from home in search of autonomy of mind and body.Together, these attempts represent a growing movement by lockdown and vaccine sceptics to separate from mainstream society and form their own communities, much as hippies and new age believers did in the 1960s and ’70s.‘Life is easier here than in Germany,’ says Heinz from the shade of his garden in El Paraíso Verde.
He and Wichmann were fed up with what he describes as a particularly European penchant for ‘regulations, rules, and taxes’, which give people.
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