The Great COVID Purge

Commentary

The announcement that came from the White House is spooky in its brevity. It was just one sentence announcing the end of the COVID emergency. The 15 Days announced on March 16, 2020, which implemented the national emergency declared a few days earlier, ended up lasting 1,135 days.

What resulted? National ruin. We see it in every aspect of our lives: cultural, economic, educational, public health, familial, community, and trust in institutions. Life expectancy is in free fall, not from COVID but from the fallout of the response. Cities are wrecked. Millions have been professionally and demographically displaced.

It’s not even clear that we live under the Constitution anymore.

And yet this is how they dare to end it, or, at least, claim to have ended it.

It is a serious question whether it has really ended. The administrative state effectively performed a coup against the elective government on March 13th, three years ago. That power has not been given back. Biden’s signing of the House-initiated emergency termination seems pro forma, a cosmetic tip of the hat to the idea that we still have government by the people. But it is generally not true anymore. The administrative state seized power in those days and it has not given it back.

As if to underscore the point that nothing has changed, the Biden administration just released another $5 billion for vaccine development, as if these companies did make enough profit over the past three years by conscripting hundreds of millions of unwilling customers to accept its product.

Wait, didn’t the vaccine fail? Of course it did and everyone knows that. Their excuse is that it was just an early test of a brilliant idea, like Windows 95. Yes, there need to be tweaks. But because mRNA is a platform technology, like the body’s new operating system, they just have to keep iterating with development until everyone is on the subscription plan.

Looking back, it is increasingly clear that the power and profits of the pharmaceutical companies was the main point along. But it was not the only point.

In addition, all institutions in the US faced a kind of political purge of dissidents. It all began with a media frenzy about a virus on the loose. We could not see it. We didn’t know if it was there are not. We were told to trust the voices of authority. In those days, there was a lot more trust so many people went along. After all, why would they lie about such a thing?

Over time, people began to be suspicious of their claims that this would be ten to one hundred times worse than the flu and that everyone could die. There were so many parts to the manipulation of the public mind.

The PCR tests were known to be wildly inaccurate, detecting not sickness but the presence somewhere of a tiny particle. Then you had the open admissions that they were misclassifying deaths on purpose. Between bad tests and misclassifications, it almost seemed like any powerful person could make a pandemic appear and disappear using technology and media amplification alone.

Still, many people panicked. What were we supposed to do about it? There were three rounds of mandates. It began with solitary confinement of the whole population, except for those deemed absolutely essential. Who would decide? Some bureaucrat somewhere. You will never know his name. But he was in charge of characterizing your profession and life and you had better comply.

One must be willing to impose solitary confinement, celebrate it, and endure it in order to enter the gates of woke heaven. And if you did not, prepare for the onslaught.

Then there was the second mandate. Once having exited quarantine, one must cover one’s face at all times. Of course we knew that this would not work. Anthony Fauci even said so, while later claiming that the truth he accidentally stated was itself a lie. So our breathing was restricted. Our ability to express ourselves was truncated and our ability to see others’ mouths came to an end. Children developed learning disabilities. As for the disabled themselves, they had no rights at all.

For those who passed those two tests, quarantine and masking, there remained the biggest challenge of all: accept the government’s potion into your arm even though you didn’t need it under the best scenario and it would endanger your life under the worst. Still you had to trust. How much do you believe the party? Show us.

There were of course many of us who did not go along. Even from the first day, we doubted the whole thing. How were we treated? We were marginalized and excluded.

What was purged? The public sector. The military. The media. The universities. Even whole cities. Those who disagreed were silenced, humiliated, displaced, and made to feel stupid and powerless. Canceled, as they say.

By the end of this ordeal, the final purge of soldiers, employees in large firms, civil servants, students, faculty, intellectuals, journalists, and administrators was complete. Those non-woke voices that remain are too demoralized and afraid to speak up.

The revolution is complete. As a result, the older conception of public health, the university, the military, the media, and so much more, seems almost entirely gone.

Millions are still trying to piece their lives together but truly we live in new times with a new form of government. It goes by many names: the biosecurity state, digital leviathan, technocratic hegemon, despotism by the administrative state. The sooner we recognize this reality, the better.

Where are the silver linings? We now know what we did not know before. We know that the mainstream media is largely captured by the Deep State. We know the same about most large corporations. We have learned that we cannot trust public health or even public schools.

With that knowledge, people have started building new institutions. Homeschool is the norm and private schools are bursting at the seams. People have moved to states and cities friendly to the idea of freedom.

Something is brewing out there and it is not Bud Light. They think they can just make this go away with a one sentence press release? No way. We must have the truth. We must have accountability, no matter how long it takes. Freedom is our birthright. We never should have acquiesced to having it stolen from us.

The growing ranks of people who are determined not to live as captives of the new system are finding new ways to reclaim their rights, health, education, faith, and freedom. In the end, and despite the unspeakable pain, the lockdowers, technocrats, and oligarchs will not win this. The human spirit is too resilient finally to be fully controlled.

They showed us who they are and what they can do. Now we know. We must now act on that knowledge.

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