The Pandemic Narrative: Effectively an Attack on Civilization
BOOK REVIEW, by Elizabeth Woodworth
“STATES OF EMERGENCY: Keeping the Global Population in Check,” by Kees Van der Pijl, Clarity Press, 2022
As a researcher and writer about the Covid-19 pandemic (https://www.globalresearch.ca/author/elizabeth-woodworth), I found this book answered many of my questions concerning the wildly irrational global response to a coronavirus. According to the World Health Organization, this one has an overall infection mortality rate of merely 0.23%.
We have seen that the classic public health terms “pandemic,” “vaccine,” and “herd immunity” had to be redefined in order to carry out this unprecedented response with any semblance of credibility.
Some have suggested that the pandemic is a political project of the World Economic Forum.
Yes, Prof. Van der Pijl allows, the WEF Global Leaders graduates have been at the helm of the most repressive Western democracies. However, he says, the benignly-presented “Great Reset” needs to be placed in the context of recent history.
The current situation has its roots in the decline of Western industrialism and trade unions. The unrest that arose after the 2008 crash “went in all directions — the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, the Yellow Vests in France. Strikes, riots and anti-government demonstrations, as well as mass migration and drug abuse since then have broken all existing records — until the World Health Organization proclaimed the Covid outbreak a pandemic.”
Countries across the globe announced states of emergency, which, supported by incessant media propaganda, amounted to a global seizure of power.
However, it was not a medical, but a political emergency for the oligarchs. Consequently, in the name of “the virus” there has been a two-year bloodless transition from Western liberalism to an authoritarian state and social structure.
Why was this done when there was no actual medical emergency?
Because, Van der Pijl believes, a democratic transition had been making progress — based on IT networked social communications — towards a society beyond capitalism. In response, the ruling class and their media used this virus to shut the transition down.
For decades the biggest world corporations had set the agenda every year for invited national governments at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Under this corporate influence, governments have been gradually conditioned to take their populations hostage. The pandemic has been an ideal cover for establishing a surveillance society without resorting to overt violence.
At the same time, the pandemic has provided vast economic opportunities for business: for the pharmaceutical industry, the biotech sector, the Gates Foundation, and for medical schools and research centres such Johns Hopkins University.
“The ruling oligarchy itself and the multi-layered state apparatus it directs, by proclaiming the ‘pandemic,’ by their subsequent censoring of both expert and popular opposition to its many antisocial policies — effectively an attack on the population — have forced the situation and provoked a showdown.”
The closing chapter examines the possibilities of an IT revolution for the opposite course, aimed at radical democracy and digital planning.
As was illustrated in Canada during the truckers’ revolution, the world has been forced into a revolutionary situation by the oligarchy, “and now faces the choice to submit or opt for a viable alternative that would entail the dispossession of the billionaire owners of what Marx called ‘the social brain.’ In the process a broad, politically heterogeneous movement for freedom will emerge that will restore and renew democracy whilst exploiting the possibilities of the IT revolution for a viable human future — or perish.”