Tim Drayton wrote:Get Real! wrote:Tim should explain to us what benefit a government has by shutting every industry down and confining all their citizens at home, if not to protect them from a deadly virus.
Lay it out on the table Tim... give us the points we are missing that you are able to see, from this "devious" global plan.
Do enlighten us.
This is an excellent question, so thanks for posing it.
There are a number of valid hypotheses, e.g.
1. Having spent twelve years trying to rescue the global capitalist economy with quantitative easing, low or even negative interest rates, to no avail, a massive collapse was inevitable and the coronavirus epidemic is being used as a smokescreen to provide an excuse for the collapse so as to divert public anger away from the real culprits. Also, the economic crash was liable to provoke widespread outrage and protests, so what better way to prevent this than have everyone under house arrest.
2. Various popular protest movements were springing up in different countries. People who know France well have said that the Yellow Vests movement there was far stronger than the media was generally depicting and things were heading in the direction of revolution. Again, what better way to head this off than place everyone under house arrest. It is notable that France has some of the strictest lockdown measures anywhere.
3. This crisis is certainly going to exact a heavy toll on small and medium-sized enterprises, with most of them probably set to go to the wall. But how hard is it going to affect major international corporations? For example, the small producers in the US shale oil sector look set to go bankrupt pretty immanently, but the shale patch will one day go back to producing and the majors like ExonMobil and Shell are drooling at the prospect of picking up their assets at pennies on the dollar once the little guys go bankrupt and making big bucks once the oil price picks up again. You really need to ask cui bono? The more you look into it, all the tentacles behind the manufactured hysteria over the coronavirus stretch back to the Gates Foundation and big pharma. Big pharma is going to earn tons of money from this crisis, and perhaps they just don’t care if everyone else goes bust.
4. Perhaps the future bumper profits for big capital that will come under the totalitarian, surveillance society that some claim is being rolled out on the back of this manufactured crisis far outweigh the temporary losses entailed by the crashing of the world economy.
With reference to the above scenarios, it is worth taking a look at the interview with German journalist and author Ernst Wolff, who specializes in studying the global financial system from an anti-capitalist standpoint, to which I have linked above. Wolff says the measures being rolled out on the pretext of the coronavirus epidemic mean that the global financial system has crashed, something he has long been predicting, and these strict measures are being taken so that a transition to a new economic system that may well involve wholesale confiscation of assets can be managed and to prevent people from protesting against it by keeping them under house arrest. Frankly, I hope he’s wrong but a lot of what he says adds up.
You can find a whole wealth of ideas at the following blog:
https://wrenchinthegears.com/2020/04/whose author argues:
"By tanking the global economy, which was planned to jumpstart the Fourth Industrial Revolution and human capital investment markets anyway, those with an eye on pandemic markets maximized potential future profit."
Just a few random snippets from this blog, some of the science in which I find challenging, to give an idea of the arguments:
There will be profound, almost incalculable, economic fall out from the lockdown.
As tragic as this is, it actually makes sense within the context of global markets. Pandemic finance is meant to be a growth sector, and market logic dictates a terrible first time out of the gate will guarantee “improvement” on future dashboard metrics.
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For them it was a win-win. Impoverish millions so they will be forced to become social impact data commodities and set up a really robust futures market in pandemic preparedness with a side of biometric surveillance. I’m sure the fin-tech oligarchs are beside themselves right now.
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What IS clear is that powerful global interests, including members of the World Economic Forum, are using this time of disruption and desperation to try and push through many elements needed to implement their Fourth Industrial Revolution program. This includes global digital currency, smart biometric surveillance, wearable technologies, online education, and tele-presence labor including tele-medicine and tele-therapy. All of this is happening against a back-drop of increased policing, diminished labor and environmental protections, and 5G infrastructure installation.
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Public health is being weaponized as a tool of bio-surveillance and profit extraction. Profit will be created through human capital finance AND through the architecture of the surveillance it requires. Seth Berkley, the head of the Gates Foundation’s vaccine program GAVI, is a co-author of the piece. Gates maintains significant investments in satellite deployment and Crown Castle 5G wireless infrastructure. Rebecca Weintraub, another co-author, is managing director of the Draper Kaplan Richard Foundation, which is heavily invested in ed-tech and data-driven crimal justice reform.
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As we struggle to comprehend this new reality and protect ourselves and our loved ones and communities, we must also realize that global powers have weaponized public health systems in ways that are unimaginable to most people.
Unless you have a clear understanding of biometric surveillance and human capital finance you will be tempted to dismiss valid concerns as “conspiracy.” That is what they want. They want you to believe in the benevolence of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Marc Benioff, Pierre Omidyar, and god forbid even Michael Bloomberg.
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Framing future pandemics as an issue of national security allows public health to be subsumed within an increasingly sophisticated global apparatus of of digital surveillance, predictive analytics, and enclosure. The nature of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has been characterized by asymptomatic carriers and inadequate testing protocols, has led populations around the world to embrace diminished civil liberties and even welcome the opportunity to be deputized as community enforcers.