Pitcairn Island, in the South Pacific, is COVID-free and idyllic, its 47 inhabitants say

[oioioi]

Mark Tomlinson looks out his window to see the Pacific Ocean stretching to the horizon.

"You can sit here and there's not even a thought about COVID," he says.

"But you do realise how lucky you are to be here without all the difficulties everybody's going through."

Mr Tomlinson lives on Pitcairn Island, one of the most remote communities on earth.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-08/pitcarin-island-covid-free-pacific-vaccine-success-/100356192

[No Vested Interest]

1. Pitcairn Island is where the crew from HMS Bounty landed after they mutinied.

One of my favorite series of books 70+ years ago.
I read all three books, Pitcairn Island being the tird.
(I'm doing this from memory, so don't hold me responsible if I'm not 100% correct .)

[oioioi]

2. 100% correct...

In 1790, nine of the mutineers from the Bounty, along with the native Tahitian men and women who were with them (six men, eleven women, and a baby girl), settled on Pitcairn Island and set fire to the Bounty. The inhabitants of the island were well aware of the Bounty's location, which is still visible underwater in Bounty Bay, but the wreckage gained significant attention in 1957 when documented by National Geographic explorer Luis Marden. Although the settlers survived by farming and fishing, the initial period of settlement was marked by serious tensions among them. Alcoholism, murder, disease and other ills took the lives of most mutineers and Tahitian men. John Adams and Ned Young turned to the scriptures, using the ship's Bible as their guide for a new and peaceful society. Young eventually died of an asthmatic infection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Islands#European_settlement

[Maru Kitteh]

11. "Turned to the scriptures" for a "new and peaceful society"

Yeah that explains the rampant child rape, for sure.

[Chili]

6. me too - the Pitcairn story hooked me

I even started a novel, then a screenplay about it - I don't think the story has been told on film (I checked on imdb, mostly travel or something). The horror of the violence, racism, mysoginy, abuse... it's probably never been told because it's so depressing, and went on for a decade or more before it calmed down. By then the only men left on the island were Young and Adams - all the Polynesian men had been murdered. Christian himself had been murdered.

Marlon Brando was criticized for the way he portrayed Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty, but IIRC, it was him protesting the broken promise that what happened on Pitcairn would be included in the plot, and it wasn't.

[obamanut2012]

7. And then Young and Adams' ancestors kept the raping

Especially young girls, and still do it, along with child porn.

[Chili]

10. I read that below

HORRIFIC. And what a disappointment to learn that was happening - is still happening - after researching the history of that island. And while the Tahitian and most Polynesian culture was patriarchal - as most cultures in the world still are (we see it right here every day) - using that as an excuse to rape and abuse young girls is just vile, especially in this day and age. Not to mention the fact that none of the Polynesian women who came with the mutineers to Pitcairn were underage, so there was no historical precedence for that behavior to justify those heinous crimes. Ugh. I think the island being so isolated didn't help.

[Scrivener7]

3. Unless you don't like the idea of generations of pre-teen people being sexually abused by relatives,

those relatives being almost all the men on the island.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Pitcairn_Islands_sexual_assault_trial

Other than that, Pitcairn is fab.

[obamanut2012]

4. All that child rape leave sthem feeling peaceful, too

WTF is this feel good article about these criminals?!

Slap on the wrist sentences after systemic rape, child porn use by the rapists even now. They were founded by murderers who murdered all the men and the raped all the women, then kept on doing it down through the generations. They suck.

[LisaL]

5. if they are all inter related and keep on reproducing, it's not going to end well

for their offspring, covid or no covid.

[Sympthsical]

8. Their defense was certainly a novel one

"Well, technically, Britain never bothered with us. So all those anti-rape laws don't apply!"

It was a swing. I'll give them that.

[obamanut2012]

12. And, "It's part of our culrure!!!!!!"

Yeah, they said that about the UK while taking huge amount of aid for them. They need to just be relocated to Norfolk Island.

[brooklynite]

9. My house in Brooklyn is COVID-free and idyllic, its 2 inhabitants and cat say...

...isolation is always a handy solution.