Walking in non-essential shoes is one of the most painful treks one can try. Let’s take a hike.
Step. Early in the Corona scare, you wake up one day to find your business has been deemed non-essential for the good of the country. Fifteen years of scratching, clawing, and toil to gain control of your destiny and make a better life for your family. Then poof! most of that sweat equity evaporates in a fireball of fear.
To you and your family, your business isn’t simply essential, it’s existential. It is everything! The sum total of years of planning, hard work, sacrifice and pain, all which you were willing to suffer in order to achieve your life-long dream of owning your Small Business. Now, the future you worked for is facing extinction at the very moment you were about to reap the great rewards of your unrelenting efforts.
Step: You open your doors in anxious excitement, placing your hopes that the typically huge Christmas retail season can drive the business back into profitability. Customer traffic provides enough revenue to pay some mounting bills, but the restrictions make it impossible to do much else. You’re unable to significantly reduce your debts, rehire employees, or even pay yourself. Once the viral scare is over, you convince yourself, then you’ll be able to make up lost ground.
Step: The media is pushing panic again. You don’t get it. You know of no one who has caught the virus, let alone died from it. You do know that the virus has a taste for the sick and elderly, which means the young and healthy are very safe, making the decision to close schools rather strange. You remember the original scare claims were massive, hundreds of thousands were supposed to die. Not so. Why the focus on cases and not actual deaths?
Step: There it is! Shuttered again. That debt you incurred to restart is licking its chops. Your perishable goods are as useful as a steaming pile of moose dung, and just to rub your nose in it, the city will force you to pay them to come recycle it for you. Your Dream is now a dystopian, totalitarian nightmare. You can’t survive like this, your business, your dreams, and your future are dead.
Step: You see other business owners losing the fight as well. The calls from essential businesses to support Small Business is too little, too late. The damage is done and can’t be fixed. The virtue signalling is pure empty gesture, designed more as a marketing gimmick to convince people they care – while they support lockdowns that destroy their competitors. Virtue-free signaling at its finest.
But the story line works: “We have to follow the China model because the pandemic is sweeping across the globe…”
Close on the heels of this con job, we have the intro to phase two: “In order to deal with future pandemics, we must install a new planetary system of command and control; human behavior must be modified.”
Translation: wall to wall surveillance at a level never achieved before; universal guaranteed income for every human, tied to obedience to all state directives; violate those directives and income is reduced or canceled; the planting of nano devices inside the body which will broadcast physiological changes to central command, and which will receive instructions that modify mood and reaction…
Phase one lockdowns prepare the citizenry to accept phase two.
In other words, phase one had nothing to do with a virus. It was part of the technocratic revolution.
I call your attention to a stunning article in The Atlantic. “The Panopticon Is Already Here” (9/20), by Ross Andersen.
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