I read this book just a few months before COVID hit. "immunoboosters" and engineered illnesses play a significant role in the story, set in 2050 California. Having a population dependent on these immunoboosters is one way the thoroughly corrupt regime (and I mean totally evil) exercises control.
You can see a detailed summary of the book here.
https://wegotthenumbers.org/resources/fiction-book...
I wondered what Stahawk's take on the present situation would be. This is all I could find:
A Purification Ritual for Vaccine Wellness
https://starhawk.org/a-purification-ritual-for-vac...
I have been trying hard to listen, with compassion and understanding, to my friends who are resistant to getting vaccinated. My friends are not right-wing conspiracy theorists or Trumpists—they are coming from the wellness community. They are herbalists, anti-capitalists, homesteaders, spiritual people suspicious of mainstream ideology in general and the pharmaceutical-industrial complex in particular, with whom I share many common values and ideals.
To me, the risk of getting Covid-19, especially the new Delta variant, with its attendant risks of long-term complications and/or death, clearly outweigh the much smaller risks of complications from the vaccine. But what I hear from my friends is not so much a cold calculation of risk assessment, but more of a sense that to accept the vaccine would be to take into their bodies something that would taint them and compromise their loyalty to what they believe in. Maybe you share that sense of taint and impurity, yet also have strong reasons for getting vaccinated? That’s where ritual can help.
Generally, she seems to be pro-vaccine. Some of her followers reject this attitude though. You can see some of the heated debate on the FB thread:
https://www.facebook.com/StarhawkAuthor/posts/3828...
I don't see anything anywhere about her commenting on the parallels between her book and the present moment.