Shortly before the deadline for sending the selected content of this issue of the Community Development Journal to the publishers, the editorial team received a message from Oxford University Press alerting us to the possibility of delays in the publication process due to the dramatic upsurge in COVID-19 infections and deaths in India. Like many other publishers, Oxford University Press outsources much of the journal production process, such as typesetting and copyediting, to India. The notification served as a reminder of the globalization of academic capitalism. More starkly, it signalled the catastrophic contribution of COVID-19 to intensifying what Achille Mbembe (2021) refers to as the ‘vicious partitioning of the globe’. In some parts of the world, mass vaccination has been accompanied by talk of post-COVID-19. Elsewhere there is talk of mass trauma, chaos and indignity as poverty and lack of access to healthcare are revealed to be the most significant pre-existing conditions that increase people’s risk of dying from the virus. Describing the privatization of healthcare in India as a crime against humanity, Arundhati Roy (2021) reported recently that because of the pandemic, oxygen has become ‘the new currency on India’s morbid new stock exchange’. Despite hellish reports and images from India of makeshift crematoria in which many of those who die from the virus are being cremated, protests organized by those who argue the risks of the virus have been grossly exaggerated continue. According to many of these protesters, instead of living through a pandemic we are being deceived by a ‘plandemic’ orchestrated by the global elite of Big Pharma, Bill Gates and the World Health Organization, and a ‘casedemenic’ of repeated public announcements of the numbers infected by what they claim is a highly treatable minor illness. We need to pay more attention to this kind of organizing.

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COVID-19 和宇宙权利的反集体集体组织

发送本期社区发展期刊精选内容的截止日期前不久对于出版商，编辑团队收到了牛津大学出版社的一条消息，提醒我们由于印度 COVID-19 感染和死亡人数急剧增加，出版过程可能会延迟。与许多其他出版商一样，牛津大学出版社将大部分期刊制作流程（例如排版和编辑）外包给印度。该通知提醒人们注意学术资本主义的全球化。更明显的是，它标志着 COVID-19 的灾难性贡献加剧了 Achille Mbembe（2021）所说的“全球的恶性分裂”。在世界的某些地方，大规模疫苗接种伴随着 COVID-19 后的讨论。在其他地方有关于大规模创伤的讨论，贫困和无法获得医疗保健等混乱和侮辱被揭示是增加人们死于该病毒的风险的最重要的预先存在的条件。Arundhati Roy (2021) 最近将印度的医疗保健私有化描述为危害人类罪，最近报道称，由于大流行，氧气已成为“印度病态的新证券交易所的新货币”。尽管来自印度的关于临时火葬场的地狱般的报道和图像，其中许多死于该病毒的人正在被火化，但那些认为病毒风险被严重夸大的人组织的抗议活动仍在继续。根据其中许多抗议者的说法，我们不是生活在大流行中，而是被大型制药公司、比尔盖茨和世界卫生组织的全球精英精心策划的“大流行”所欺骗，以及反复公开宣布感染人数的“个案”，他们声称这是一种高度可治疗的小病。我们需要更加注意这种组织方式。