Posted on 08/31/2021 2:58:22 AM PDT by JmyBryan
“Lockdowns,” the mass quarantine of both sick and healthy people, have never before been used for disease mitigation in the modern Western world. Previously, the strategy had been systematically ruled out by the pandemic plans of the World Health Organization (WHO) and by health experts of every developed nation. So how did we get here?
Mass lockdowns of entire countries as a technique for fighting disease sprung into the world’s consciousness on the order of Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), who fomented a global propaganda offensive targeting Western governments and media. Within weeks, the WHO, an organization that once devoted itself to fighting disease and which has sadly become a tool of Chinese foreign policy, promulgated lockdowns into global policy through a series of press conferences that showed a complete absence of analysis or logic.
(Excerpt) Read more at tabletmag.com ...
This is one of the best pieces I have read on this. It’s long but worth reading, especially towards the end, when he examines the behavior of SCOTUS in the face of the CCP-style suppression of American rights.
Ping for later reading.
Bookmarked.
Absolutely amazing article. Fantastic reporting.
Yes, excellent and thanks for the post.
Definitely worth the read.
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