Is it time to forget Covid-19? Not quite. And a recent article examines the origins of what happened across the world in the wake of the early reports from China of a novel respiratory virus.
As a steady flow of studies and reports show, now finding their way into the mainstream media, we will suffer for decades from the outcome of the measures incepted to ‘manage’ the ‘pandemic’. We are suffering economically, educationally and psychologically. We are also continuing to roll out an almost useless (at preventing infection) and demonstrably harmful vaccine from which people are, likewise, continuing to suffer and die.
We must not take our eye off the ball given that at Porton Down they are preparing vaccines for ‘disease X’ (which does not yet exist…until they manufacture it) and that wonderful body of men and women at the WHO are busy preparing for the next ‘pandemic’. With repeated reports of new Covid variants and Covid-19 hospitalisations ‘marching upwards’ in the United States, the warning signals are loud and clear: this will happen again.
The question remains, however, as to what happened last time and why. These things have been discussed widely, among very few similar outlets, in the pages of Unity News Network since early 2020. But it is remarkable to see an excellent article in a journal published by mainstream academic publisher Wiley. The article, ‘Pandemic preparedness and the road to international fascism’, is authored by David Bell of the Brownstone Institute at Austin in Texas and published in the American Journal of Economics and Sociology, probably the last place you would expect to see such an article. The article is published open access thus the full text and a PDF version are available to read and download. Check the website soon as it is quite likely that something so critical of the WHO and their Covid-19 response will be retracted. Wiley have not traditionally been one of the publishers willing to tolerate counter Covid narrative views.
The abstract summarises the article as follows:
‘The COVID-19 response, intended for a virus that overwhelmingly targeted the elderly, ignored norms of epidemic management and human rights to institute a regime of suppression, censorship, and coercion reminiscent of the power systems and governance that were previously condemned.’
Urging the ‘public health industry’ to save the health of the public ‘rather than contributing to its degradation’ and clearly likens the Covid-19 measures of 2020 to what has happened ‘under previous fascist regimes’ Bell traces the formation of global public health. He is careful to acknowledge the initially laudable and well defined aims of the WHO but states that over the years changes took place ‘that allowed empty rhetoric to replace substance.’
The usual suspects such as Gates, Bloomberg and Rockefeller feature and the explanation for their disproportionate influence on global health policy is explained as follows: ‘As wealth begat more wealth and monopolistic practice, individuals amassed greater assets than some medium-sized countries. Directing part of this wealth to health through “philanthropy,” particularly public-private partnerships, subtly but rapidly changed the entire ethos of global health.’
As those with their hands on the reins by dint of their wealth and influence grew impatient with concepts such as ‘personal freedom and democratic decision-making’ they needed to develop what the author describes as a ‘society fit for fear’ realising that ‘medical fascism can succeed only when a large section of the public is sympathetic to its message.’ This, reckons Bell, has been achieved by ‘a major decline in formal religious observance in many higher-income countries, particularly in Europe and North America’ and ‘a belief that death was the end of oneself, an unmitigated disaster for anyone who wishes for continued existence, would make death something to be avoided even at great cost to self or others.’
Given that the principles of public health, properly understood, should weight costs and benefits of interventions, why was this abandoned under the Covid-19 regime? He questions ‘either something happened to the mind-set of many thousands of people working in these institutions, or most had only paid lip-service to these concepts and were willing to abandon them when it was convenient.’ Whatever the reason, it is clear to Bell—as it will be clear to readers of Unity News Network–that ‘impoverishment and economic decline became an acceptable cost to stop a virus.’
Before raking over some of the familiar coals of the Covid-19 years such as press censorship, government overreach in terms of basic freedoms and ever looser definitions of what constitutes a pandemic, Bell concludes the ‘drive of fascism in the 1930s was heavily supported by the health professions’ where the medical professions were overrepresented in the Nazi party and the SS. What followed in Germany is eerily familiar to those of us who have just been through the Covid19 years in the UK. Replacing ‘minorities’ with ‘mask refusniks’ and ‘vaccine sceptics’ they were ‘characterized by the identification and vilification of minorities, by intense propaganda backed by heavy censorship, and by the use of health professions to enforce aspects of population control, including management of dissenters and those considered of less worth.’
The next question is, if this happens again, will we resist? After all, giving Bell the final word: ‘The public’s acquiescence to increasing and institutionalizing of restrictions seems likely, as the German public acquiesced to similar measures in the 1930s.’
Roger Watson is a retired academic nurse who lives in the UK.
He is currently engaged in a range of professional consultancies in the UK, Europe and China. He writes regularly for several outlets including The Daily Sceptic, The European Conservative, Country Squire Magazine and The New Conservative.
