Three years ago, in the depths of lockdowns, it became obvious that we desperately needed a new citizen movement with a different focus. Prevailing ideological forms were simply not adapted to the enormous exogenous shock to the system that lockdowns implied. It was unexpected, especially under the guise of public health.
Every essential freedom was under attack. Authoritarian or totalitarian Government swept over the country and world, and nearly the entire intellectual class said: this is fine. And so I suggested a response:
This movement, whether it is called anti-lockdown or just plain liberalism, must reject the wickedness and compulsion of this current moment in American life. It needs to counter the brutalism of lockdowns. It needs to speak and act with humane understanding and high regard for social functioning under freedom, and the hope for the future that comes with it. The enemies of freedom and human rights have revealed themselves for the world to see. Let there be justice. The well-being of us all is at stake.
And such a movement did in fact form. It has been broad. It has transcended the ideological and class entrenchments of the past. It grew in sophistication and strategy over time. The resistance became international. It fought its way out of censorship and shaming. The fields of battle have been varied and comprehensive, from the scientific journals to journalism to hard-core revolts on the street such as the truckers’ protest.
The results have been impressive. Vaccine mandates and passports have been beaten back. The right of international travel has been restored. Emergency declarations have been allowed to expire (even if the powers are still in place). We are back to pretending that the people and not the Faucis of the world are in charge.
There has been no justice, however. No question that the officials who did this to us are on the ropes. Many have resigned. Others are hiding. Rare is the public figure today who is willing to own what happened. And these days, hardly anyone defends the claim that the despotic response achieved anything in terms of public health.
Congress holds hearings on the pandemic response and that’s great. But the mass media does not cover them. A brutalised population does not want to revisit the trauma. There has been and will likely not be any real accountability.
We are left with a vast number of remaining issues from the past and new ones we never expected. These all necessitate continued ideological adaptation and citizen mobilisation. It’s a sad truth because people are tired and demoralised and more than ready for normal life again. But we cannot simply wish away the ugly truths all around us.
No question that the administrative bureaucracies would lock down again under the same or new pretext. Yes, they will face more opposition the next time and trust in their wisdom has fallen off a cliff. But the pandemic response also granted them new powers of surveillance, enforcement and hegemony. The scientism that drove the response informs everything they do. So the next time, it will be harder to restrain them.
Below are some remaining and new issues we must confront in the coming years.
1. Tech Surveillance and Censorship
Big Tech surveilled before the pandemic response but the quasi-martial law of the period consolidated the power of the Government over private data. The Twitter Files have proven the huge role that the police state played in censorship of science and any opinion that contradicted regime priorities.
Facebook groups were blasted away. LinkedIn and Twitter accounts were banned. Even Google search results were gamed. This was why those of us in the resistance had such a very difficult time finding each other in the first place.
When they demanded social distancing, they wanted more than human-separation of six feet. They wanted to stop the formation of any serious resistance. They wanted us all isolated, disoriented and thus easy to control. As a result, the tools that we once believed were designed for more human connection were deployed to keep us apart.
Yes, there are many lawsuits ongoing that challenge this practice as a violation of First-Amendment rights. Court discovery has produced many thousands of pages, and the decisions seem likely to land in the correct position.
But here’s what is spooky. If these court challenges really posed much of a threat to the practice, wouldn’t mainstream social platforms be eschewing censorship right now? They are not. YouTube is the king of takedowns. Instagram, LinkedIn, and Facebook do the same.
Only Twitter was relatively freed up once Elon Musk took over. But his new CEO is a champion of content moderation at the behest of the advertisers she hopes to lure back to the platform. It appears that the platform is going back to the way it was, perhaps with not the same intensity but with the same potential. In any case, the trajectory is not headed the right way. Censorship and surveillance are being institutionalised.
The mass media performed abysmally during the entire fiasco, threatening dissidents, amplifying lies and cheering the compulsion. There have been no admissions of wrongdoing. We need all new sources of news.
2. Money and Banking
The Federal Reserve was essential to making the pandemic response possible. It stood ready to monetise every dollar Congress spent to subsidise the lockdowns and boost spending of the entire public-health hegemon. It was so essential that on March 15th 2020 – two days after the declaration of emergency and one day before the Trump administration’s lockdown edicts – it actually eliminated reserve requirements for banks completely. In other words, it abolished a core regulatory practice that had restrained money creation for more than 100 years. The result was a $6.5 trillion printing spree.
The bank crisis caused by dramatically increased interest rates – a policy designed to arrest the inflationary consequences of the Fed’s accommodation of the Covid regime – has destabilised regional banks and centralised banking operations. In the background is the stated intention of the Biden administration to reform the whole system using a Central Bank Digital Currency that creates a path for a China-style social credit system of universal control.
The only solution is sound money but we are getting further from that by the day. The competent advocates of pro-freedom reforms are few and far between. The economists largely failed during the lockdowns to speak out for their discipline and knowledge. Now they are as captured as any other profession.
3. Business Enterprise
The pandemic response was a massive boon to big business, particularly tech and media companies, and a disaster for small business. My immediate concern in the earliest days of lockdowns concerned investment in such enterprises: why would anyone start one if it can be shut down by government edict? There has been no compensation for the losses and no attempt at reparations. A recession will introduce even more challenges.
A major boost to small and medium-sized businesses would be regulatory and litigation reform but today’s political environment admits almost no discussion of these crucial topics. All the energies of Washington’s lockdown shock troops are now spent on concocting ways for more regulation, less economic growth, higher business costs, and more interventions. Big business loves this but it is devastating for the middle class.
Champions of free enterprise need to understand that their cause has massively diverged from the interest of big business, which has never been more united with big government in a campaign to monopolise and cartelise industry. Collusion of this sort is now the norm. The system bears a lot in common with the corporatism of the interwar period that was later called fascism.
4. Regulatory Capture
Many of us got a thorough education in just how influential bad actors in the private sector are over government agencies. The revolving door is the main way they do business. The FDA started rubber-stamping vaccines even over the public objections of its top experts. The CDC was giving out recommendations that were effectively industry-based press releases.
The same is true for the whole of the regulatory state. It is no longer possible to discern which is the hand and which is the glove: government or big business. This is true for every department in government, including the war machine which operates at the behest of the munitions manufacturers.
The SEC is run by the securities industry. The Department of Labor is captured by the labor unions. HUD is captive of the housing developers. The Department of Agriculture rules at the behest of large agriculture interests while blocking access to markets for local farmers and ranchers. And so on.
Have we yet come to terms with this on the Left or Right? Have libertarians grappled with this? I suspect not. This reality has massively reshuffled the political layout. We have completely left the clarity of the 1980s and entered into a new world of grave complexity and corruption at all levels.
5. Public Health
The public-health bureaucracies took over in 2020 and what did they most neglect? Public health. They made us stay indoors when we needed sun. They closed the gyms when we needed exercise. They shut down the rehab centres and groups at a time of mass substance abuse. They blocked the distribution of repurposed drugs that doctors even at the time knew to be effective for respiratory infections. Even basic antibiotics lost their luster in the mandate to wait for the vaccine. And together all these actions reinforced a problem far more vast than infectious disease: chronic disease, including obesity.
What about health? It’s in crisis. The American diet has to change. That in turn connects to the way we live our lives. We all need to learn that not every health problem can be solved by a pharmaceutical. Indeed, the opposite is true: a society awash in government-approved snake oil is fundamentally poisoned. The poisoning of the body needs to stop. The only way out is the old-fashioned way: fresh air, sunshine, healthy diet and daily exercise. It sounds like a cliché but it is a matter of life and death.
Also essential are real and not captive markets. Our systems of delivery of medical services need to become more competitive with doctors granted the freedom to practice again. The system of insurance serves mostly industry and not customers. All of this cries out for radical reform. As for the FDA and CDC, reform is simply not enough. They must be razed to the ground with new systems taking their place.
In addition, over the pandemic period we observe how public health became a trojan horse for martial law. So far as I can tell, that remains true today. The problem here is deep and frightening, especially since virtually any social, cultural, and economic problem can be rendered as a health issue.
6. Educational Institutions
The public schools closed in some places for up to two years. Government forced closures on many private schools. Homeschooling became mandatory as daycare centers also closed. This massively disrupted the work and education habits of families but now millions are seeking alternatives. This applies to universities and colleges who betrayed students first with lockdowns and then with mask and vaccine mandates.
There has to be a better way. And the market for educational services needs to open up to allow a better way. The old way failed and is now being drained of trust, energy, and resources, even as student debt has ballooned to incredible levels and public institutions are no longer attractive places to work. The dream of universal education was killed by its most passionate champions.
And yet, new institutions are taking their place. They have to. In the process of recreation has come a new and much-welcome emphasis on Classics, basics and genuine educational fundamentals. Sadly the transition will leave many people. Students are already two years behind in learning, thanks to the cruel closures.
7. The Deep State
Americans had become vaguely aware of this thing called the deep state before the pandemic response but the experience itself proved it. Democracy did not exist. We were at the mercy of bureaucrats and their decisions. Courts did not step up. When they finally did, the bureaucrats pushed back and said that no one has the right to control them.
There are hundreds of agencies and millions of deep-state employees who are accountable to no one and yet exercise massive power over our lives. There is nothing about these institutions in the Constitution. The bureaucratic state is a fourth branch of Government when there are supposed to be only three. The tentacles from Washington extend not only to every state and city but all over the world.
This whole problem began in 1880 but massively worsened in the postwar world, and then rallied to hegemony in the 21st century. It absolutely must be dismantled or, at the very least, held accountable by elected representatives of the people. This point is obviously very important to the establishment. The repeal of the executive order that would reclassify many administrative employees as at-will (Schedule F) was one of the first acts rescinded by the Biden administration.
8. Crime and War
During lockdowns, traffic accidents massively worsened and stayed that way. The data are not in yet but they are certain to reflect record crashes and deaths. Why might this be so? I spoke to an Uber driver who explained that driving became and remained a venue for the expression of human volition when our avenues for exercising free will were closed off. Add anger and substance abuse to that and you have disaster on your hands.
The lockdowns coarsened life and blunted the moral conscience. If government can do all this to us, why can we not do it to each other? After this experience, people are no longer mustering the empathy sufficient to care about the well-being of others. People stopped making eye contact with each other, and then the masks made even basic nonverbal cues impossible. Communication itself was reduced to its most base elements.
The results started to become obvious with the entirely just protests that turned to violent riots in some spots in the summer of 2020. The crime wave has not abated ever since. Cities now tolerate a level of petty thievery that would have been unthinkable just 10 years ago. The cops no longer care and the citizenry in general shows far less respect for property and person than in the past.
When government becomes immoral with the blessing of all the commanding heights in society, it sends a message to everyone else. In this way, the pandemic response unleashed a form of ethical nihilism and detached communities from a human connection to each other. The forced human separation was bad for the soul, and this dabbling in wrongdoing spread around the world.
Even the Ukraine-Russia conflict is a symptom of this loss of rationality and morality. Recall that Putin himself spent at least a year in lockdown, isolated from reality and physical contact, enough to drive an already power-drunk oligarch into a delusional state of mind. The same could be said of Biden with the mindless funding of the Ukrainian regime. The clash of these leaders has become an apocalyptic pursuit devoid of diplomatic wisdom, imbued with almost messianic fanaticism. So too for the peanut galleries recruited to cheer one side or the other. Common sense has been trampled as the funding blows up, more property is destroyed, and lives are lost.
9. Immigration
Never forget that the travel restrictions that began in 2020 kept most of the human population locked in their nation-state residences for years, even those living on islands that used to be sanctuaries. The right to visit the U.S. for the ‘unvaccinated’ only resumed on May 11th 2023.
The captivity of the people has also driven a desperate desire to flee and find a new home. The massive demographic shifts in the U.S. population, out of lockdown states to open states, is reflected internationally too. With huge populations on the move, states have been forced to come to terms with migration policies on which there is no political consensus.
This problem is blowing up right now on the U.S. Southern border, leading to tremendous anger that has turned into a major populist backlash under the impression that the country is being invaded. This is not going to end well for anyone. The answer has to be a rational and humane immigration policy that can somehow separate worker rights from voting rights, but the U.S. is not prepared to tackle that issue as most nations in the world already have. As a result, we toggle between legal restrictionism and border chaos.
10. Shattered Lives
The trauma of the last three years has shattered the stability of millions of families and communities. Couples were torn by travel restrictions but also internal arguments about vaccines. Children could not attend the funerals of their parents and couples held weddings on Zoom. Many families are dealing with grim deaths not from Covid but from ventilators, despair, suicide and vaccines.
Digital addictions of various sorts tore apart familial loyalties. Strange new forms of gender dysphoria have been unleashed in this period too, and that cannot be a coincidence. Many parents live wracked with guilt about their vaccine-injured children.
The arts experienced wreckage, ruining careers that took a lifetime to build. How can we have a true civilisation without the arts? Without them, we are reduced to the status of brutes.
Many small communities had their routines disrupted as civic associations dissolved. Every person experienced this in different ways: the local band broke up over mask wearing, the bridge club stopped meeting up over vaccines, the religious community drained of energy in arguments about social distancing, and so on. There is plenty of anger everywhere in plain sight.
These are conditions that can lead to disaster, especially when it is coupled with an economic crisis. It’s a powder keg.
11. The History
Vast efforts on the part of Brownstone writers are spent getting the history of this correct. Precisely when was Covid spreading? When did U.S. officials know? When was the response mapped out and who was involved? Who decided to transfer authority over to the security state? What tools did the federal Government use to coerce the states? Why the neglect of natural immunity? How did repurposed drugs get deprecated and why?
There are thousands of questions, many of which are mapped out in the independent Norfolk Group document that Brownstone supported. There are commissions needed in every nation, state, city and county. We need answers. We’ve discovered many features of the response and the truth about the truths and strategies but we have a very long way to go.
The establishment line is that while mistakes were made, science is hard and officials had to improvise in real time. That is utter rot. There was very little about the entire regime that made any sense, and anyone with an ounce of knowledge knew that and also knew the devastation that it would cause. Why precisely did the people in charge decide to blind themselves? Who were the powers behind the throne?
We have to get this right, and the challenge is intensified by the mandatory secrecy of all the main players. Still, if we don’t get the history discovered and told, we will be stuck with the propaganda version of events, and that serves only ruling-class interests. Nor can we depend on regime historians to reveal unflattering truths.
Generations hence will ask the great question: how could they have so stupidly dismantled civilisation so quickly and under such thin pretense? We must have the answers.
12. Force as a Policy Tool
To muscle the whole population into a particular pattern of action and belief was the core principle of the Covid response. It was worse than being treated like lab rats: at least scientists don’t try to control what the rats think. It was the ultimate and global experiment in social management under the guise of science.
This is why Brownstone was founded with one ideal that came out of the pandemic policy experience: “a society that places the highest value on the voluntary interaction of individuals and groups while minimising the use of violence and force including that which is exercised by public or private authorities.”
Achieving that is our task but the barriers are massive. The Iron Law of Liberalism formulated by British sociologist Ralph Miliband says that all reform efforts by liberal democracies ultimately serve the interest of the economic and political elite, rather than the general population. That’s certainly been the experience in our lifetimes.
That is why we need more than a political movement. We need a massive cultural and intellectual movement that upholds a new ideal. In some ways, however, it’s not really a new ideal. It is the trajectory of the idea of human progress for many hundreds of years dating back even to the Magna Carta. That push has been for enforceable limits on power and fundamental rights to the people. The whole point of representative government was to guarantee that as a living reality.
All of this was taken away to the cheers of all elite opinion, ending in shattered lives and a global loss of trust. Before this happened, many people never realised just how important freedom truly is to a well-lived life and the building of a humane society. Nor did we know just how fragile civilisation truly is.
Now we know. If we want to restore it, there is work to do. The urgency cannot be exaggerated. There is too much at stake to ignore any of the above. Rebuilding requires all our efforts.
Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute, where this article first appeared.
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#13 Team James or Team Tobes?
Are these problems all caused by a concatenation of poor decisions made by overpromoted and easily led oafs or is it a long planned project to ultimately enslave and destroy humanity by a shadowy Luciferian predator class?
Obviously not a conspiracy theory. The first statement is ridiculously true, but they don’t see how stupid they look! Talk about Kings new clothes…
Very well said! Great stuff! Thank you.
The response to covid, across large swathes of the world, has a name:
Socialist Fascism
‘And what of the English Bentham who considered that all industry asked of government was to be left alone, and of the German Humbolt who expressed the opinion that the best government was a lazy one?’
I stand with Bentham and Humbolt
‘The Fascist State organizes the nation, but it leaves the individual adequate elbow room. It has curtailed useless or harmful liberties while preserving those which are essential. In such matters the individual cannot be the judge, but the State only.’
https://sjsu.edu/faculty/wooda/2B-HUM/Readings/The-Doctrine-of-Fascism.pdf
Our government, governments, and their minions stand with Mussolini
‘“Those people nowadays who say they would have stood up against the Nazis – I believe they are sincere in meaning that, but believe me, most of them wouldn’t have.”
“the whole country was as if under a kind of a spell,”
Brunhilde Pomsel
Where do the great British public stand?
Fascism wants man to be active and to engage in action with all his energies; it wants him to be manfully aware of the difficulties besetting him and ready to face them. It conceives of life as a struggle in which it behooves a man to win for himself a really worthy place, first of all by fitting himself (physically, morally, intellectually) to become the implement required for winning it. As for the individual, so for the nation, and so for mankind. Hence the high value of culture in all its forms (artistic, religious, scientific) and the outstanding importance of education.
If that was one of the core values of the mad pandemistas, I must somehow have completely misunderstood it. It seemed more as if they didn’t value education at all, considered art and religion expendable (and very much expendable) luxuries in face of The Existential Global Danger Of Respiratory Infections and wanted man to be passive, docile and accepting of whatever fate international public health authorities threw at him.
There is a difference between high minded, insincere, platitudes and reality.
‘Mussolini’s ideological penetration of education was especially visible in primary schools. There, politically reliable instructors were ensuring that children were raised in fascist values. This included teaching the spirit of sacrifice and heroism, strict obedience to authority as well as the protection of the Italian nation.
In Fascist Italy, organizations assisted this process of ideological instruction also at university. Here youth had to participate in activities focused on pre-military training for boys and different forms of civic service for girls.’
‘The Blackshirts favored way to make people obey was to tie someone to a tree, force 1-2 pints of castor oil down his throat, and then force him to eat a live frog/toad. Usually, this punishment was enough to ensure that people kept their thoughts to themselves…..The motto of the Blackshirts was “Me ne frego” (‘I don’t give a flying fuck’)
Life in Italy under the dictatorship
‘The last thing any Education Secretary wants to do is announce that schools will close and this is not a decision that the government ever wanted to take.
I would like to reassure everyone that our schools have not suddenly become unsafe, but limiting the number of people who attend them is essential when the COVID rates are climbing as they are now.
We must curb the escalating cases of COVID throughout the country and prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed.
That is why today I am setting out the contingency plans I had prepared but had hoped to never have to implement.
I would like to thank all our teachers, all our education staff and social workers for all they have been doing to keep children and young people safe and learning.’
Gavin Williamson
‘You hear them shouting “Heil, Spode!” and you imagine it is the Voice of the People. That is where you make your bloomer. What the Voice of the People is saying is: “Look at that frightful ass Spode swanking about in footer bags! Did you ever in your puff see such a perfect perisher?”
Bertie Wooster
There is a difference between high minded, insincere, platitudes and reality.
There’s a much more important difference between I consider this opinion really deplorable! and It’s fascism!, no matter how convenient one believes this toughtersatz-label to be. That’s particularly true for pandemic policies which were all essentially based on the notion that people are cattle whose individual properties don’t matter and who have to be herded by their expert minders in the proper way to maximize their useful output and minimise the harm they accidentally do to themselves.
Another aspect would be that fascism is ultimatively military, ie, geared towards war and based on the presumption that the highest purpose people can serve is that of a soldier. In contrast to this, Corona-ism was/ is built and an almost pathological fear of people coming together for any reason and is thus inherently pacifist. It’s not possible to field an army without strangers coming together and living under very much improvised circumstance for prologned periods of time and there’s no way to erect hand sanitizer stations on all entries to a battlefield and make people use them every time before and after they touched something somebody else also touched.
Lastly, saucy eyewitness (always) stories people put into place after handing half of Europe over to a murderous communist dictator who killed people by the million but of whose feats we never really hear anything aren’t terribly credible. Especially not, if they obviously mirror American interrogation practices of not that long ago, cf Trump’s Torture works statement. The fascists also claimed they were the good guys and that whomever they were targetting was handled in the most appropriate way to achieve a generally desirable outcome.
The reality is that ‘The Doctrine of Fascism’ written by Mussolini was implemented violently.
‘The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative. Individuals and groups are admissible in so far as they come within the State.’
‘We will fight both technical and spiritual rear-guardism…’
The Doctrine of Fascism – Benito Mussolini
‘During the Fascist takeover, many Italians lived in a state of terror. Black-shirted squadrists beat, shot, ritually humiliated, and destroyed the property of peasants, workers, politicians, journalists, and labor organizers. Although Socialists and the working classes were the primary victims, the Fascists also targeted Catholics, liberals, Masons, state authorities, and even dissident Fascists. This unprecedented campaign of political violence, most intense during the years between 1920 and 1922, culminated with the March on Rome and the appointment of Benito Mussolini as prime minister.’
Ordinary Violence in Mussolini’s Italy, Michael R. Ebner
‘….Italian atrocities committed in their Balkan and colonial territories, the more than fifty concentration camps throughout Italy that held Jews and foreigners during World War Two, the forced labor of Italian Jews in the cities and countryside…’
Ruth Ben-Ghiat, A Lesser Evil? Italian Fascism in/and the Totalitarian Equation
‘If we delve further back, the roll call gets longer: the living and recently deceased Italian soldiers under Mussolini whose atrocities against Greeks, Serbs, Ethiopians and Jews have been, with U.S. approval, largely ignored for more than 60 years. One of the most notorious, Giovanni Ravalli, died only in 1998, fully exposed but completely unpunished for crimes ranging from having a Greek policeman’s teeth pulled out with pliers to ordering boiling oil poured over 70 other prisoners.’
John MacArthur, Sorry About That War Crime,
A report of the NDH (Croatia) Consulate in Rijeka sent to the NDH’s Foreign Affairs Ministry on 20 December 1941 wrote that 800 people, including 60 women and 40 children, passed through Rijeka from Dalmatia in chains in four transports from 15 November to 20 November 1941.
‘“It is distressing to see our people with folded, cuffed hands, tied together with chains, going into the unknown, labouring while carrying their luggage, their faces distorted with pain caused by their shackles.”
British Police did not put people in chains, it is true, but measures implemented by the British government in response to a common cold coronavirus violated the human rights of millions and killed tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands before their time.
‘Between 2 March and 12 June 2020, 18,562 residents of care homes in England died with COVID-19, including 18,168 people aged 65 and over, representing almost 40% of all deaths involving COVID-19 in England during this period’
‘The UK government, national agencies, and local-level bodies have taken decisions and adopted policies during the COVID-19 pandemic that have directly violated the human rights of older residents of care homes in England—notably their right to life, their right to health, and their right to non-discrimination…….
Via its Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), the government in mid-March adopted a policy, executed by NHS England and NHS Improvement, that led to 25,000 patients, including those infected or possibly infected with COVID-19 who had not been tested, being discharged from hospital into care homes between 17 March and 15 April—exponentially increasing the risk of transmission to the very population most at risk of severe illness and death from the disease……..
Although care home deaths were not even being counted in daily official figures of COVID-19 deaths until 29 April, some 4,300 care home deaths were reported in a single fortnight during this period.’
As If Expendable 04 Oct 20
There is no mention of the environment. It is a life threatening situation and unless we can control the green zealots our lives will be destroyed.
Mr Tucker – that is an amazingly thoughtful and insightful piece – thank you.
I’m not sure it is an omission as such, but you don’t mention the role of the mainstream legacy media in enabling the disaster of the last three years, or the need for a proper fourth estate media, acting on behalf of the People in exposing the truth and holding power to account.
If the MSM continue to suppress the truth and propagandise and thus enable the implementation of policies that are against the interests of the People, we are doomed.
It’s a dilemma, should we fight the globalists with our own globalist organisation? National level opposition such as the Dutch farmers & the Canadian Truckers achieved some cut-through but is it inevitable that opposition to globalism has to be, well, globalist?
Global, ideally yes, but not globalist. Namely, a global opposition (in the sense that it’s everwhere) to the notion that the world needs global decisionmaking to avoid catastrophe.
The current system has absolutely nothing in common with what Mussolini referred to as corporatism because he wasn’t thinking about multinational enterprises encorporated according to the laws of the state of Delarware. What this world urgently needs is either less clueless Americans talking ouf of their asses or less Americans in general, especially for the next so-called pandemic. Let germ hysteriacs and civil service would-be dictators create chaos, death and mayhem there, as they already managed in 1918 – 1920, while the rest of the world happily ignores them.
Where is the UK version of Jeffrey Tucker?
History will prove that Covid-19 was a flu varient (proven by the instant disappearance of seasonal flu) and the greatest ever hoax perpetrated on humanity. Governments and Health institutions will NEVER be trusted ever again.
While an elite class can steal money from the population at will – through inflation – there is no chance of reforming this system. As is usually the case, money is the key.
One of the best articles I’ve read about this whole shite show. I just love Jeffery A Tucker trouble is aren’t more like him. The British press have been abysmal as have the church, the police, the courts, doctors, the list goes on and on.
The problem missed here is the WHO which is trying to force the world to follow its health diktats and countries are lining up to agree to subverting their sovereignty to this body controlled by China and any billionaire who is mad for power (eg Bill Gates). There is no universal vote for this, but many countries are nodding this through, hoping we won’t notice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFLPWWCAHfQ
Just watch some of this, it is long. But this EU sponsored conference, with MEPs present discloses it all. You will soon get the idea…
We have told God to butt out, and, as it has been said, He is gentlemanly enough to do so. But He has a competitor who is no gentleman.