{"id":215530,"date":"2020-10-25T08:24:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T08:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215530"},"modified":"2020-10-29T08:20:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T08:20:07","slug":"covid-19-lockdowns-are-in-lockstep-with-the-great-reset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215530","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 Lockdowns Are in Lockstep with the Great Reset"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Mathew Maavak \u2013 Activist Post Oct 24, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Lockdown enforcers in Melbourne, Australia. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

In October 2019, a pandemic simulation exercise called\u00a0Event 201<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 a collaborative effort between Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum, and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation \u2013 concluded that a hypothetical new coronavirus may end up killing at least 65 million people worldwide within 18 months of an outbreak.<\/span><\/p>\n

When COVID-19 coincidentally emerged from Wuhan two months later, scientists were rushing to generate similar alarmist forecasts using a variety of questionable scientific models. Researchers from the Imperial College London, for instance,\u00a0approximated<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0death tolls of 500,000 (UK) and two million (USA) by October this year. To those following the metastasis of the global vaccine mania, the Imperial model was predictably \u201ctidied up<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u201d with the help of Microsoft.<\/span><\/p>\n

While scientific models are admittedly fallible, one would nonetheless be hard-pressed to justify the endless string of\u00a0contradictions<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, discrepancies and wilful amnesia in the global pandemic narrative. In fact, one should question whether COVID-19 even deserves the tag of a \u201cpandemic\u201d. According to the United States\u2019 Centre for Disease Control (CDC), the updated age-group\u00a0survival rates<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0for COVID-19 happen to be: Ages 0-19 (99.997%); 20-49 (99.98%); 50-69 (99.5%); and 70+ (94.6%). The mortality rates are only slightly higher than the human toll from seasonal flu and are, in fact, lower than many ailments for the same age cohorts.<\/span><\/p>\n

If the CDC statistics don\u2019t lie, what kind of \u201cscience\u201d have we been subjected to? Was it the science of mass-mediated hysteria? There are other troubling questions yet unanswered. Whatever happened to the theory of bats or pangolins being the source of COVID-19? Who was Patient Zero? Why was there a concerted media agitprop against the prophylactic use of hydroxychloroquine that was backed by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) no less? And why did Prof Neil Ferguson, who had led Imperial\u2019s contagion modelling, repeatedly\u00a0breach lockdown<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0measures to meet his paramour \u2013 right after his recommendations were used to justify draconian lockdowns worldwide which continue till today?<\/span><\/p>\n

Most damning yet, why are Western media and scientific establishments\u00a0dismissive<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0of Russia\u2019s Sputnik V vaccine? After all, Moscow\u2019s credibility, both scientific and otherwise, is on the line here. In a real pandemic, nobody would care where an effective remedy comes from. The virus does not care about borders and geopolitics; so why should we politicize the origins of an antidote?<\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps what we are really dealing with here is a case of mass \u201ccoronapsychosis<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u201d as Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko aptly called it. Who benefits from global lockdowns that are destabilizing all facets of our society? The following four \u201cgreat\u201d undercurrents may provide a clue.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Great Deflection<\/strong><\/h2>\n

As the author had warned for more than a decade, the world is staring at a confluence of risk overloads, socioeconomic meltdowns (1) and a Second Great Depression. For the ruling classes, COVID-19 is fortuitously deflecting public attention away from the disastrous consequences of decades of economic mismanagement and wealth fractionation. The consolidation of Big Tech with Big Media (2) has created an Orwellian world where collective hysteria is shifting loci from bogeymen like Russia to those who disagree with the pandemic narrative.<\/span><\/p>\n

We have entered a \u201cnew normal\u201d where Pyongyang, North Korea, affords more ambulatory freedom than\u00a0Melbourne<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, Australia. While rioting and mass demonstrations by assorted radicals are given a free pass \u2013 even encouraged by leaders in the West \u2013 Facebook posts questioning lockdowns are deemed subversive. This is a world where Australian Blueshirts\u00a0beat up wome<\/strong><\/span>n<\/a>, manhandle a\u00a0pregnant woman<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in her own home, and perform wolf pack policing on an\u00a0elderly lady<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in a park. Yet, the premier of the Australian state of Victoria remains unfazed by the unflattering moniker of\u00a0Kim Jong Dan<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The corona-totalitarianism is unsurprisingly most pronounced in the Anglosphere and its dependencies. After all, these nations are staring at socioeconomic bankruptcies of unprecedented proportions vis-\u00e0-vis their counterparts. Even their own governments are being systematically undermined from within. The US Department of Homeland Security, created in the aftermath of 9\/11 to combat terrorism, is now providing\u00a0$10 million<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in grants to organizations which supposedly combat \u201cfar-right extremism and white supremacy\u201d. This will further radicalize leftist malcontents who are razing US cities and its economies in the name of social justice. There is, however, a curious rationale behind this inane policy as the following section illustrates.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Great Wealth Transfer<\/strong><\/h2>\n

While the circus continues, the bread is thinning out, except for the\u00a0Top 0.001%<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Instead of\u00a0bankruptcy<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, as recent trends indicated, Silicon Valley and affiliated monopolies are notching up record profits along with record social media censorship. US billionaires raked in\u00a0$434 billion<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in the first two months of the lockdown alone. The more the lockdowns, the more the wealth accrued to the techno-elite. As tens of millions of individuals and small businesses face bankruptcy by Christmas, the remote work revolution is gifting multibillion dollar jackpots to the likes of Jeff Bezos (Amazon) and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook). Azure (Microsoft) and AWS (Amazon) cloud eco-systems, among others, have expanded by 50% since the beginning of the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the face of such runaway wealth fractionation, panoptic contact tracing tools from Big Tech are increasingly employed to pacify restive populations. And of course, to prevent a second, third or Nth wave of COVID-19 for our collective good!<\/span><\/p>\n

In the meantime, Big Banks, Big Pharma, Big Tech and other monopolies are getting lavish central bank\u00a0bailouts<\/a>\u00a0or \u201cstimulus packages\u201d to gobble up\u00a0struggling<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0smaller enterprises. COVID-19 is a gift that never stops giving to a select few. But how will the techno-oligarchy maintain a degree of social credibility and control in an impoverished and tumultuous world?<\/span><\/p>\n

The Great Philanthropy<\/h2>\n

Oligarchic philanthropy will be a dominant feature of this VUCA decade (3). According to a recent Guardian<\/strong><\/span><\/a> report, philanthropic foundations have multiplied exponentially in the past two decades, controlling a war chest worth more than $1.5 trillion. That is sufficient to bankroll a horde of experts, NGOs, industry lobbies, media<\/a><\/strong><\/span> and fact-checkers worldwide. Large sums can also be distributed rapidly to undermine governments. The laws governing scientific empiricism are no longer static and immutable; they must dance in tandem with the funding. Those who scream fake news are usually its foremost peddlers. This is yet another \u201cnew normal\u201d which had actually predated COVID-19 by decades.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is a prime example of how oligarchic philanthropy works. Since 2000, it has donated more than $45 billion to \u201ccharitable causes\u201d and a chunk of this is designed to control the global media<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>narrative. The Guardian, rather tellingly, credits the BMGF for helping eradicate polio despite contrary reports of wanton procedural abuses, child death tolls and poverty exploitation which routinely mar the foundation\u2019s vaccination programs<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. Bill Gates even interprets vaccine philanthropy in terms of a 20-to-1<\/a><\/strong><\/span> return on investments, as he effused to CNBC last year.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for the BMGF\u2019s alleged polio success, officials now fear that a dangerous new strain could soon \u201cjump continents<\/a>\u201d. After spending $16 billion over 30 years to eradicate polio, international health bodies \u2013 which work closely with BMGF \u2013 have \u201caccidentally\u201d reintroduced the disease to Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

Poverty, hunger and desperation will spawn a tangible degree of public gratitude despite elite philanthropy<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u2019s entrenched bias towards elite institutions and causes. By the Guardian\u2019s own admission, \u201cBritish millionaires gave \u00a31.04bn to the arts, and just \u00a3222m to alleviating poverty\u201d in the 10-year period to 2017. Contrast this with the annual $10 billion earmarked by the philanthropic pool for \u201cideological persuasion\u201d in the US alone. The rabble is worth their weight only for the potential havoc they can wreak.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is enough money floating around to reduce our cities into bedlams of anarchy as seen in the United States today. (It will only get worse after the Nov 3 US presidential elections). The crumbs left over can be delegated to threadbare charities. One only needs to reflect on soup kitchens in the post-1929 Weimar Republic. The most popular ones were organized by the Nazi party and funded by wealthy patrons. The march towards a new order has a familiar historical meme. The new Brownshirts are those who terrorise citizens for not wearing masks, for not being locked down in their pens, and for simply supporting a political candidate of choice. Even children<\/strong><\/span><\/a> who do not follow the oligarchic narrative are not spared!<\/span><\/p>\n

The Great Reset<\/h2>\n

A great pruning will inevitably occur in the mega-billionaire club as whatever remains of the global corona-economy is systematically cannibalized. The club will get smaller but wealthier and will attempt to sway our collective destiny. Control over education, healthcare, means of communications and basic social provisions is being increasingly ceded by governments to the global elite. Governments colluding in the \u201cnew normal\u201d will sooner or later face the ire of distressed masses. Politicians and assorted \u201csocial justice warriors\u201d will be scapegoated once they have outlived their usefulness.<\/span><\/p>\n

In this cauldron, the century-old technocratic dream of replacing politicians, electoral processes and businesses with societies run by scientists and technical experts (4) may emerge \u2013 thanks to advances in panoptic technologies. It will be an age for the \u201crational science of production\u201d and \u201cscientific collectivism\u201d. The latter is eerily redolent of the Soviet sharaska<\/em> (prison labs) system.<\/span><\/p>\n

The production and supply of goods will be coordinated by a central directorate (5), led not by elected representatives (whose roles, where they exist, will be nominal anyway) but by technocrat factotums. Perhaps this is what the World Economic Forum refers to as the Great Reset. In reality, though, this idea smacks of a global Gosplan<\/strong><\/span><\/a> minus the Doctor Sausages<\/a><\/strong><\/span> for the innumerable many.<\/span><\/p>\n

(Some emerging economies like Malaysia and India casually refer to technocracy as an infusion of greater technical expertise into bureaucracy. This is a misinterpretation of technocracy\u2019s longstanding means and goals).<\/span><\/p>\n

One intractable problem remains: will the emerging global oligarchy tolerate the existence of various deep states worldwide? Initially, both groupings may cooperate to their mutual benefit but their respective raisons d\u2019\u00eatre<\/em> are too contradictory to be reconciled. One thrives on an \u201copen society\u201d run by obedient hirelings who will administer a global Ministry of Truth, while the other depends on secrecy and a degree of national sovereignty to justify its existence. Surveillance technologies ushered in by the ongoing \u201ccoronapsychosis\u201d may end up being the deciding factor in this struggle.<\/span><\/p>\n

After all, if social media posts by the President of the United States and the White House can be blatantly censored<\/strong><\/span><\/a> today, think of the repercussions for billions of people worldwide tomorrow?<\/span><\/p>\n

An abridged version of this article was published<\/a> by RT on Oct 14<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Maavak, M. (2012), Class Warfare, Anarchy and the Future Society: Is the Middle Class forging a Gramscian Counter-Hegemonic Bloc Worldwide? Journal of Futures Studies<\/em>, December 2012, 17(2): 15-36.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Maavak, M. (2019). Bubble to Panopticon: Dark Undercurrents of the Big Data Torrent. Kybernetes<\/em>, Vol. 49 No. 3, pp. 1046-1060. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1108\/K-06-2019-0403<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Maavak, M (2021). Maavak, M. (2021). Horizon 2020-2030: Will Emerging Risks Unravel our Global Systems? Accepted for publication. Salus Journal<\/em>, Issue 1 2021.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Elsner, Jr., Henry (1967). The Technocrats: Prophets of Automation. Syracuse University.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Stabile, D.R. (1986). Veblen and the Political Economy of the Engineer: the radical thinker and engineering leaders came to technocratic ideas at the same time. American Journal of Economics and Sociology<\/em>, Vol, 45, No. 1, 1986, pp. 43-44.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Dr Mathew Maavak is a regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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