The event of COVID-19 is not a surprise.
Our government’s response to the event is a surprise.
I do, in a way, agree with the author. Organized conspiracies are very rare.
Unorganized conspiracies are not so rare.
By unorganized conspiracies I mean; a large group of people with a common goal loosely held together by open lines of communication.
As an example, I give you the main stream media. They have a common goal to further advances toward a socialist government. When one outlet catches on to a sound bite that seems to further that goal the rest of the outlets pick it up and echo it across the country.
With the virus I see that there is a confluence of forces that have driven the response to COVID-19.
First is Human Nature. It is commonly understood that it is human nature to seek power, attention and praise.
When the news of a new viral outbreak broke in the news from China the president naturally sought the advice of the CDC. A doctor who had become accustom to getting attention from those in power during the days of the AIDS scare once again was receiving attention.
This doctor saw the opportunity to rise on the world scene and exercise power. Of course, he in his own mind would be protecting the people from wide spread death and suffering. (God save us from leaders with good intensions)
Meanwhile other people involved with designing computer models for pandemics also saw opportunities to sell their wares.
Next up are the hoards of Leftist with the common goal to prevent a second term for DJT.
These people seeing that a temporary cessation of commerce could bring on a recession push for more and more controls on who can and can not open for business.
Bring on the Governors.
State Governors accustomed to being largely ignored by the general population are suddenly being paid attention to by the press and the general population. Who but a few political junkies would watch their governor speak very day for two months?
This is heady stuff for attention junky politicians. They want this to continue regardless of the economic consequences (even if they don’t realize it themselves)
There you have it. Nothing but human nature and a loosely held group of people is all that is necessary to bring down the most powerful economy on the planet. An Unorganized Conspiracy of fools.
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis
The NGOs that plotted the CV 19 response actively plotted and have been doing this for years. Event 201 was a dry run of exactly this.
Heads of health agencies and corporations met and publicly shared their discussion in November 2019.
This pandemic panic has been Bill Gates big bugaboo for at least five years. He didn’t care what virus he used as an excuse he was going to get his global shut down one way or another.