How the Deep State Went Viral

How the Deep State Went Viral

Debbie Lerman

What if the pandemic response was run by national security agencies according to a biodefence and counterterrorism playbook, rather than by public health agencies according to public health guidelines? That is the question at the core of my new book The Deep State Goes Viral: Pandemic Planning and the Covid Coup (published by the Brownstone Institute).

The ramifications of the research and analysis in the book extend far beyond the CV pandemic response, exposing global trends that increasingly affect our everyday lives. This book is not about an event that happened in the past. It is about the shape of what’s to come – unless we wake up and stop it.

Here are excerpts from the introduction to the book:

I’m lucky to be a pretty panic-proof type of person, so back at the beginning of 2020 I was not afraid. I did not think the virus posed a mortal threat to myself or my family. I knew it affected mostly elderly people with serious ailments. I also knew that there was never a pathogen in recorded history that was so transmissible and so deadly that it required locking down the entire world. And I found no evidence that the Wuhan virus, as it was called at the time, was such a pathogen.

Yet everyone else around me seemed to have completely lost their minds, first and foremost the media and public health experts. Instead of calming the public down and advocating common sense measures, they started screaming about ‘flattening the curve’, masking, social distancing and the necessity of depriving children of education and socialisation to ‘protect grandma’. Then they started bulldozing all of society into supporting not just untested and unregulated gene-based vaccines, but also coercive mandates of those vaccines.

It was utter madness.

Yet almost nobody else I knew saw things the way I did. Even when it became eminently clear that the virus posed little to no threat to children, they insisted that kids had to stay inside (the absolute worst thing I could imagine for a child) and wear masks. Then, when vaccine mandates were rolled out, even when it became indisputable that the vaccines did not stop infection or transmission, people turned vicious. ‘The unvaccinated’ became a category of undesirable outcasts not allowed to participate in society. I found the irrational cruelty of people who considered themselves moral and compassionate to be downright terrifying.

The main cause of that irrational reaction was equally spine-chilling: a massive, global censorship and propaganda campaign undertaken by the entire online and traditional media apparatus. It was so gigantic that most people could not – and still do not – believe it could happen.

I discovered that the US CV pandemic response was not a public health response run by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), CDC or any other public health body. Instead, it was a biodefence or counter-terrorism response, run by the Pentagon, National Security Council and Department of Homeland Security. 

When I continued to dig, I found that the same pattern was followed in many countries around the world. The pandemic response, according to all available evidence, was implemented according to globally planned and directed protocols.

Why does it matter? you might ask. So what if the pandemic response was run by national security agencies according to a biodefense and counterterrorism playbook, rather than by public health agencies according to public health guidelines? And why is it surprising that most countries responded in similar ways?

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