The New Abnormal by Aaron Kheriaty

Author:Aaron Kheriaty
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2022-10-25T00:00:00+00:00

The final stage is come when Man by eugenics, by pre-natal conditioning, and by an education and propaganda based on a perfect applied psychology, has obtained full control over himself. Human nature will be the last part of Nature to surrender to Man. The battle will then be won. We shall… be henceforth free to make our species whatever we wish it to be. The battle will indeed be won. But who, precisely, will have won it?19

Who, indeed?

The New Lords of the World

Given the staggering failures of our pandemic policies, many of which were abandoned in early 2022 following the omicron variant wake-up call, we might wonder: Why has there still been virtually no reckoning with those failures? Where is the serious, and very necessary, postmortem on the pandemic? Perhaps a rigorous retrospective critique of our pandemic policies has not happened because many of the key policies were not really about the virus in the first place. They were adopted with other aims in mind, and they successfully served these other interests, mostly financial and political. The biomedical security state serves interests other than public health.

Our covid response amounted to a class war. Rolling lockdowns plunged people into poverty worldwide while the shrunken middle class was hit by skyrocketing inflation. According to data from the Federal Reserve, following the pandemic the top 1 percent of U.S. earners have more wealth than the entire middle class. The richest 10 percent now own 90 percent of stocks.20 By October 2021 the combined wealth of billionaires had risen by $2.1 trillion during the pandemic, a 70 percent increase that brought their collective worth to $5 trillion—roughly the GDP of Japan, the world’s third-largest economy. Meanwhile, their philanthropic contributions fell to their lowest in more than a decade, at a time when an estimated 500 million people fell into poverty.21

The federal CARES Act bailed out many large monopolistic firms with little regulation or oversight of how the money was spent. Airline executives, for example, used this taxpayer money to give themselves bonuses while laying off tens of thousands of employees.22 In 2020, as the Fed provided enormous purchases of corporate debt and securities, “millions of people filed for unemployment, [and] nearly 1 in 4 households experienced food insecurity,” journalist Alex Gutentag explained. “The result was an estimated loss of $1.3 trillion in household wealth for American workers. Meanwhile, U.S. billionaires gained $1 trillion.”23 By June 2020 more than 400,000 small businesses had closed, with additional closures continuing through the second half of that year. By the end of May 2021, there were 40 percent fewer small businesses nationwide than at the beginning of 2020.24

The lockdown-induced carnage was even worse internationally, particularly in developing nations. An estimated 140 million people, at minimum, were added to the number of people on the edge of starvation, and this is likely to worsen. An additional 70,000 children died of malaria in 2020 compared to the previous year—mostly because they could not access clinics when they had a fever or could not get the necessary medications due to lockdown-induced supply chain problems.

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