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"In August 2020 Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is now secretary of the Department
of Health and Human Services, suggested that Covid-19 could be a “plandemic,”
“part of a sinister scheme.” In July 2023 he was recorded telling dinner
companions that “Covid-19 is targeted to attack Caucasians and Black people,”
whereas “the people who are most immune are Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese.”
Vaccine research, he said at a panel discussion, could well be responsible for
many major pathogens, including HIV and the Spanish flu of 1918.
Kennedy is part of a cohort of medical influencers who gained prominence early
in the pandemic, peddling miracle cures such as bleach, hydroxychloroquine, and
the livestock dewormer ivermectin, or offering “natural” or “alternative” ways
to beat the virus, through diet or exercise or competitively priced
supplements. The “antivaxxer” subculture that made him a celebrity grew
powerful in the late 1990s, following a panic about the MMR vaccine and autism
initiated by a subsequently retracted paper in
The Lancet. Participants came
to consider themselves freedom fighters, freethinkers opposing tyranny.
When the pandemic started, many people, scared by the news and already
suspicious of the medical establishment, found the threat to freedom of
Covid-19 mitigation policies even more alarming than Covid-19. The pandemic
appeared to them a kind of epidemiological Reichstag fire, an emergency
fabricated as a pretext for an intensification of government control, on either
a national or a global scale. Fears of a “world government” or “new world
order” have been bubbling under the American cultural surface for a very long
time, at least since the growth of the system of international organizations
that followed World War I. Villains such as the UN or the Trilateral Commission
are sometimes “revealed” as vehicles for a global totalitarianism identified
with the reign of the Antichrist prophesied in the book of Revelation.
During the first year of the pandemic this long-standing complex of
conspiratorial thinking was reactivated by powerful images of authoritarianism
in the news—Chinese government workers in hazmat suits transporting the
infected to isolation centers, police drones hovering above English hill
walkers. The mask was seen as a symbol of compliance, a muzzle worn by
“sheeple” who had already surrendered and were possibly even under a sinister
form of mind control, robbed of their autonomy by some ingredient in the
experimental drugs the authorities were so keen to pump into the populace. In
Kennedy’s opinion, the development of a Covid-19 vaccine was “a
pharmaceutical-driven, biosecurity agenda that will enslave the entire human
race and plunge us into a dystopian nightmare.” With his elevation,
conspiracy—which usually presents the government as a distant object of
obsession or fantasy—has become governmental logic."
Via
Guardian Australia
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
