worth reading all. Sanjeev is one of the rare breed - a public servant with integrity, who resigned rather than go along with the economy-destroying lockdowns.
Economist, Sanjeev Sabhlok, resigned from the Victorian Treasury over Melbourne’s strict COVID-19 lockdowns, who is no longer being allowed a voice in FakeNewsMSM:
3 Feb: Catallaxy Files: How the world fell into Xi Jinping’s trap
by Sanjeev Sabhlok
After the Wuhan lockdowns began, Jinping was ticked off sharply by Gauden Galea, the WHO’s representative in China: “trying to contain a city of 11 million people is new to science. The lockdown of 11 million people is unprecedented in public health history, so it is certainly not a recommendation the WHO has made”.
So why has the world abandoned science and bought into Jinping’s snake oil? I have devoted a chapter in my October 2020 book, The Great Hysteria and the Broken State, to this question, but things are clearer now. All roads lead to Beijing. On 10 January 2021, I joined Michael Senger and eight others to release a 17,000-word Open Letter – “Request for Expedited Federal Investigation Into Scientific Fraud in Public Health Policies” – asking security agencies across the world to investigate China’s role.
To get the West to panic and to impose lockdowns took years of preparation. Two million CCP members had to be embedded in big companies (as reported on 14 December 2020 in The Australian) and thousands of people who hold key positions in Western politics, media and research organisations, groomed...
Jinping’s pressing war objective in 2020 was to oust Donald Trump who posed an existential threat to the CCP. What better means than to create panic and confusion in the USA? Fear is a time-honoured tool of dictators to control their people. It would not have taken a stroke of genius to think of exporting fear to the enemy. With Wuhan lockdowns in place, it was merely a matter of getting the West to panic...
https://catallaxyfiles.com/2021/02/03/how-the-world-fell-into-xi-jinpings-trap/#comments
Rajeev must be a Lurker here at FR.