Teh Covid era cut through traditional ideological paradigms like knives on tissue. Nothing behaved as we might have expected. The civil libertarians were nowhere in sight. The courts did not work. Big business and media fully cooperated. The major religions caved. The national security state thrived, while both parties let it all happen. The population was mercilessly propagandized and pillaged with no resistance from the commanding heights.
Seemingly out of nowhere,pharmaceutical companies revealed themselves as more powerful than any industrial monopoly in human history,capable of shutting down the entire world in order to panic people into consuming their product.
As for the old distinctions between the public and private sectors, they melted away. The state did not save us from large corporations and the top layers in commercial society did not save us from the state. They worked together to strangle the liberty of everyone else. Which was the hand and which was the glove was unclear throughout. As for the politicians, they were almost entirely useless, fearful only to save their own lives and careers, shovel money to their constituents, and or else hide under their sofas.
For the entire period, the protections we all assumed were there for our rights and liberties vanished, to be replaced by surveillance, censorship, mandates, subsidies, penalties, subterfuge, duplicity, deception, fake science, and nonstop psyops from agencies, media, influencers, medical associations, and screaming hacks from all corners. They recruited gendarmes from within the population to demand compliance and demonize non-compliance. Yes, it was Orwell come to life.
On the other hand, it was a learning experience. It sets up those who care about freedom to reframe the argument and re-understand both the threats and the answers in a different way than before, one that is more realistic. The powers that be showed their hand,revealed their goals,and tested out their dystopian plans. The schemes are still with us but at least we know now what they are and what we might do about them.
With some benefit of hindsight, and lessons learned from having lived through this, here is a suggested reframing of a pro-freedom outlook and agenda.
1. The Problem of poisoning
We did not know it in the Spring of 2020 – though many OGs had their suspicions – that the lockdowns and ridiculous non-pharmaceutical interventions were all structured to pave the way for the pharmaceutical interventions. It was all about the vaccine all along, which is why the Great Barrington Declaration panicked the elites. It spoke of endemicity through natural immunity. The powers that be wanted only one solution, the shot, which is also why they took proven therapeutics off the market.
the driving engine of this industrial project was the pharmaceutical companies and their new toy: mRNA shots. Untested, experimental, and dangerous, they held out huge potential for infinitely scalable distribution.Covid was the industry’s chance to gain a foothold since the technology had not previously been approved.
The emergency provided the pretext to unleash the product on the population. No, it did not fix the problem and it caused unprecedented injury and death but an industrial taboo had been broken. Now the essential work is to normalize it and apply it ever more broadly as the fix for every malady.
Watching this unfold, other sectors have come under suspicion such as the food supply. Agriculture is similarly afflicted with chemicalization via cartels, including industrial pesticides for which the industry is currently seeking legal immunity for harms caused.
Patented products for fertilizers and genetically modified seeds are without precedent in the history of farming,even as traditional methods are legally deprecated and prohibited.We are once again being treated as lab rats in their experiments. The partisans of whole foods, raw milk, free-range chicken, and grass
3. Administrative State
The permanent civil service was born in the age of democracy in the late 19th century. The purpose was to provide a buffer of stability between the exigencies of the plebiscite and the plot of politicians who claimed to represent them. It seemed to make sense to have an expert class in place to smooth out the excesses of populist rage but wars and economic crises caused them to grow and grow.They became the fourth branch of government, more powerful than the other three.
Mostly the administrative state has been to boring to attract excess public attention and too petty to excite much in the way of unified opposition. All that changed with Covid as flurries of edicts poured forth from the agencies. They were not laws and they came not from legislation. They were often just changes in “recommendations” posted on websites.But they profoundly affected our lives.
Out of nowhere, we were told to vote remotely, mask up, walk this way instead of that way in the grocery store, never hold house parties, refrain from going to concerts, avoid all crowds, don’t travel, and so on. it was passed off as health advice but it caused the cities to look post-apocalyptic. No politician voted on any of this, and no politician could tell the agencies to stop, not even the president.
Clearly we had a problem and still do. Democracy had become bureaucracy and government of, by, and for the people became a state within a state that serves itself and its industrial interests. So powerful had it become that it plotted to overthrow a sitting president, not only in the US but in many other countries. The administrative state used Covid to conduct quasi-coups the world over.
The Supreme Court has issued some excellent decisions that work toward some restraint. Maybe we see some progress here at least.
Step one: recognise the problem and methods. Step two: say no.
4. National Security State
What appeared to be a public health response was really a national security response, a fact which is proven in great depth by Debbie Lerman’s book The Deep State Goes Viral. Her account has been verified repeatedly by people who were there and watched it all unfold. Even the civilian bureaucracy was deceived concerning who was really calling the shots.
The documentation of this claim is hard to come by because it is most classified. Here is how the modern state works. The superficial stuff for public consumption appears on the internet. But there is an entire underworld of classified information seen only by people with security clearances. Even then, these people see only what pertains to their area. Sharing the information is prohibited. Even if one of these people tell you or me what’s there,they face prison and then we face jeopardy just by knowing.
If this sounds cloak and dagger, it is indeed but this is not conspiracy theory. It is the reality of government in our times. Its most meaningful functioning of state and its industrial partners is classified, trapped in locked cabinets and cloaked in NDAs. It is not easily unclassified. When it is, we have no clue if what is being revealed is a limited hangout or the whole en