{"id":1837776,"date":"2023-02-07T08:21:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T13:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1837776"},"modified":"2023-02-07T08:24:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T13:24:20","slug":"the-new-abnormal-the-rise-of-the-biomedical-security-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-new-abnormal-the-rise-of-the-biomedical-security-state\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-new-abnormal-the-rise-of-the-biomedical-security-state%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1837776&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Shutterstock_1720993954-1200x801-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>All of this began in 2020, when the world was turned upside-down. We have never seen such drastic social controls threaten our freedoms and human rights. Now, three years after the pandemic, the truth is finally being revealed about its consequences for our future.<\/p>\n<div id=\"bodytext\" data-swiftype-name=\"postbody\" data-swiftype-type=\"text\">\n<p>The video below features Dr. Aaron Kheriaty interviewing me about his book. \u201cThe New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State.\u201d Kheriaty, a psychiatrist and medical doctor, was a professor in School of Medicine at University of California Irvine. He was fired after he opposed mandatory COVID shots.<\/p>\n<p>He is also the director of the Bioethics and America Democracy Program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a senior scholar and fellow at the Brownstone Institute.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAs ethics program director and ethics community chair, I was involved in basically all of the pandemic policy drafting, right up until the vaccine mandate,\u201d\u00a0Kheriaty said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOur committee at the office of the president had done the ventilator triage policy, the vaccine allocation policy. The vaccine mandate was enacted from the top and there was no debate. The policy was not drafted by our committee.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI was very concerned about the lack of open discussion and debate. This one, because of all the sensitive policy that we had created during the pandemic was going to be the most ethically problematic, problematic and publically fraught.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo I was puzzled by the fact that we didn\u2019t really have a conversation about it. I published a piece in The Wall Street Journal last year, arguing that vaccine mandates are unethical based on the principle of informed consent, which I teach to all the medical students every year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the principle that an adult who is able to think clearly has the ability to choose which medication or intervention they will accept or decline. Children, however, are not able to consent.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI was very concerned that vaccine mandates were just tossing this principle overboard under the guise of, \u2018We\u2019re in emergency and so the regular rules don\u2019t apply.\u2019 I think it\u2019s precisely in wartime and crises that it\u2019s all the more important to stand fast and hold onto our ethical principles, because those are the times where we\u2019re most tempted to abandon them. And when you do that, you can often invite disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Doctors Were Forced to Not Write Medical Exemptions<\/h2>\n<p>Despite multiple attempts, the university refused even to have a discussion and instead implemented the COVID jab policy. Kheriaty was contacted by many students as they felt manipulated. They\u2019d say things like, \u201cI\u2019m not a religious person, and so, in good conscience, I don\u2019t want to submit a dishonest religious exemption, but I have other moral or ethical concerns about this vaccine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others couldn&#8217;t get the appropriate medical exemption. The reason they couldn\u2019t get one was that the California Medical Board sent a letter threatening to revoke the medical license of any physician who wrote \u201cinappropriate exemptions.\u201d Although the board did not define what was appropriate or inadvisable, it had the intended effect. Fear of the consequences, doctors were extremely reluctant to issue medical exemptions.\u00a0Kheriaty explained:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI remember one patient of mine, a young man who went to his rheumatologist and this doctor told him, \u2018Given your autoimmune condition, given what I\u2019ve seen of the vaccine data so far, I recommend that you don\u2019t get the vaccine because I think you\u2019re young and otherwise healthy. You\u2019re not at high risk of COVID, but the vaccine could exacerbate your autoimmune condition.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe patient then turned to him and said, \u2018OK, can you write me a medical exemption because there\u2019s a mandate at my place of employment?\u2019 The same doctor that just recommended against the vaccine said, \u2018No, I\u2019m sorry, I can\u2019t do that because I might lose my medical license.\u2019 So this was the, in my view, intolerable situation that we found ourselves in 2021.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI just couldn\u2019t imagine trying to teach the principle of informed consent, which I do in the second lecture, or talking with them about integrity and moral courage, standing up and doing the right thing even though you\u2019re at the bottom of the hospital hierarchy as a medical student.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI couldn\u2019t imagine having those conversations if I had seen something being rolled out that I knew was wrong, that I knew was harming people. I could see my colleagues, nurses, and other very good professionals in the hospital getting fired, having their jobs threatened by this [mandate]. If I hadn\u2019t stood up and done something, I just don\u2019t think I would have woken up with a clear conscience.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Kheriaty fired after legal challenge<\/h2>\n<p>Kheriaty eventually filed a federal lawsuit challenging the mandate for vaccines. Because he believed that this was a legal argument that could be trusted legally, he argued for natural immunity. He was placed on unpaid suspension and investigatory leave by the university. They fired him two months after the suit was filed. Kheriaty eventually opened a private practice and has been doing well.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI have been able to provide for my family and get, almost, back to the point where I was before in terms of earnings,\u201d He agreed. \u201cBut it\u2019s much more hand to mouth now. I don\u2019t know how things are going to look year to year. I\u2019m not a salaried employee anymore, but I\u2019ve been able to cobble together various sources of support, including the book I\u00a0 \u00a0 wrote \u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been able to replicate my clinical work. I\u2019m able to see my patients in my private practice. I\u2019m able to do my research, writing, and speaking. I&#8217;ve had some support from the Zephyr Institute and Brownstone Institute in Washington, DC, as well as the Ethics and Public Policy Center.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe one thing I haven\u2019t really been able to replicate, at least not in the same way, is the teaching and supervision of medical students and residents, which I really enjoyed \u2026 That was hard to walk away from, but when I mention that, other people have told me, \u2018Yes, but you\u2019re teaching now, you\u2019re just teaching on a different and maybe even on a bigger scale,\u2019 because my case got quite a bit of attention.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMy social media profile expanded and I\u2019ve been given lots of opportunities this year to speak on podcasts to larger audiences, to speak at conferences, and I\u2019ve met some extraordinary people in the medical freedom movement. So I have new colleagues and new friends that are really remarkable and amazing people that I feel a strong connection and solidarity with, because we\u2019re all trying to pull the cart in the same direction.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all concerned about what\u2019s happened to science and medicine during the pandemic\u2014or I should say what\u2019s happened over the last several decades that really fully manifested during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s been exciting to be a part of that, to be able to testify at the U.S. Senate, at the California Senate, to get involved in some other legal cases that have to do with physicians\u2019 free speech rights and preserving the integrity of the doctor-patient relationship, so that outside governmental intrusions don\u2019t undermine it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe work I\u2019ve done this year has been really tremendously rewarding, and I\u2019m grateful for that, so I have no regrets. And even without all those things, there\u2019s nothing better than waking up with a clear conscience, knowing that I tried to do the right thing and that I didn\u2019t compromise my convictions out of convenience.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Physicians: Preserving Freedom of Speech<\/h2>\n<p>Kheriaty is involved in a legal case that tries to stop a new California law being implemented. On Sept. 30, 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 298. It was to go into effect January 1, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>AB 2098 states that doctors cannot give COVID-19 advice or treatment to patients if the advice or treatment contains false or contradictory information. \u201ccontemporary scientific consensus,\u201d \/ or \u201ccontrary to the standard of care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A doctor who violates this law is found guilty \u201cunprofessional conduct\u201d You could face disciplinary action that includes losing your medical license. Kheriaty noted:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis, to my mind, obviously undermines the core element that has to be the centerpiece of medicine, which the trust that the patient has in their physician \u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know of anyone who would want to ask their physician a question \u2026 and not have their physician give them an honest answer based on his or her actual medical judgment and reading of the scientific literature. A\u00a0physician with a gag order is not a physician that you can trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So together with four other California-based doctors\u2014Tracy Hoeg, Ram Duriseti, Pete Mazolewski, and Azadeh Khatibi\u2014Kheriaty filed a lawsuit against Newsom and other officials, including the president and members of the Medical Board of California, to block this law.<sup><span id=\"edn1\" data-hash=\"#ednref1\">1<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think everyone wants their physician to be able to say what they think \u2026 and not just be reading from a script that the government gave them,\u201d\u00a0Kheriaty said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo this lawsuit challenges this unjust law in federal court, again on the basis of a constitutional claim that this, No. 1, infringes the freedom of speech of the physician, and, No. 2, is also a violation of the 14th Amendment Equal Protection Rights of Physicians\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe have a constitutional right that\u2019s been established by the court\u2019s interpretation of the 14th Amendment to have laws that are sufficiently clear that a person can know whether or not they\u2019re in violation of the law, so that you don\u2019t have this looming thing in the background that you\u2019re always wondering, \u2018Am I OK or am I not OK?\u2019 So I\u2019m cautiously optimistic that we will prevail in court.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Federal Judge grants Preliminary injunction<\/h2>\n<p>Another lawsuit, filed by Children\u2019s Health Defense (CHD), Dr. LeTrinh Hoang, and Physicians for Informed Consent, is also seeking to get the law tossed out. CHD lawyers filed a motion for preliminary injunction on December 7, 2022. The legal challenge is still being heard by the courts.<sup><span id=\"edn2\" data-hash=\"#ednref2\">2<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 26, 2023, Senior U.S. District Judge William Shubb granted the CHD\u2019s preliminary injunction.<sup><span id=\"edn3\" data-hash=\"#ednref3\">3<\/span>,<\/sup><sup><span id=\"edn4\" data-hash=\"#ednref4\">4<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Shubb claims that the defendants did not provide any evidence. \u201cscientific consensus\u201d Has anyone \u201cestablished technical meaning,\u201d That&#8217;s what the law says \u201cno clarity\u201d What does the word mean? \u201cmisinformation.\u201d Shubb has noted the following:<sup><span id=\"edn5\" data-hash=\"#ednref5\">5<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWho determines whether a consensus exists to begin with? If there is a consensus, who must it be?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn which geographic area must the consensus exist (California, or the United States, or the world)? What is the level of agreement that constitutes a consensus (either a plurality, a majority or a supermajority? What must have happened in order for the consensus to have been reached? \u2018contemporary\u2019?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnd what source or sources should physicians consult to determine what the consensus is at any given time (perhaps peer-reviewed scientific articles, or clinical guidelines from professional organizations, or public health recommendations)?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe statute provides no means of understanding to what \u2018scientific consensus\u2019 refers \u2026 Because the term \u2018scientific consensus\u2019 It is so unclear that physician plaintiffs cannot determine if their intended conduct violates scientific consensus. \u2018what is prohibited by the law\u2019 \u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cVague statutes are particularly objectionable when they \u2018involve sensitive areas of First Amendment freedoms\u2019 because \u2018they operate to inhibit the exercise of those freedoms.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>CHD reports:<sup><span id=\"edn6\" data-hash=\"#ednref6\">6<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cJudge Shubb\u2019s ruling prevents enforcement of AB 2098 pending resolution of the lawsuit. Rick Jaffe, lead counsel, stated that the ruling was invalid. \u2018Judge Shubb looked at the law and correctly determined that the COVID misinformation was unconstitutionally vague, in large part because the plaintiffs in both cases showed there is no \u2018current scientific consensus,\u2019 given the fast-changing pace of the pandemic.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c\u2018The case will now proceed on two tracks,\u2019 Jaffe said, adding: \u2018The parties will continue to litigate the case before Judge Shubb and we will be filing a motion for summary judgment in the not-too-distant future.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBut because we won, and because a judge in the Central District of California denied a similar challenge to AB 2098, the attorney general will certainly appeal and argue that the central district judge was right. So there is much more to come.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Kheriaty also wants to be a White House spokesman<\/h2>\n<p>Kheriaty is also a plaintiff of the Missouri v. Biden lawsuit, which was filed by the Louisiana and Missouri attorneys generals. In it, they claim that the Biden administration conspired with Big Tech to illegally restrict Americans&#8217; speech rights. <span id=\"bcr_rptStory_cslStory_4\">Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, who holds a doctorate in operations research and industrial engineering\u2014two authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, an early critique of lockdowns and school closures\u2014have also joined the case.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of attention in recent weeks on the Twitter files, where we\u2019re looking under the hood at that social media company and seeing, for example, a relationship with the FBI, where the FBI is basically telling Twitter what to do and what to censor and which accounts to shut down,\u201d\u00a0Kheriaty said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cArguably, the social media companies can do this as private entities \u2026 but inarguably, no one doubts that the federal government cannot censor Americans. That\u2019s a clear free speech First Amendment violation. And the federal government cannot \u2026 pressure other entities into doing its bidding as a long arm of its censorship regime.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re hoping, first of all, to uncover exactly what\u2019s going on with this collusion, and the materials that we have so far in discovery in this case have clearly shown that not only is this happening, but it\u2019s happening on a vaster scale than we suspected when we first filed the lawsuit. At least 17 federal agencies were involved in this censorship program.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo I think that case is going to receive increasing attention in the new year as it proceeds and as more and more information comes out from other investigative reporters on what\u2019s been going on \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Kheriaty called Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former director of National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. \u201cwildly implausible memory lapses.\u201d He stated: \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d 174 times. \u201cIf he were to be honest \u2026 he\u2019s probably worried that it would implicate him in ways that are problematic,\u201d Kheriaty said.<\/p>\n<h2>Propaganda in The COVID Era<\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019ve previously interviewed psychologist Mattias Desmet about the role of mass formation in the government\u2019s ability to infringe on our human rights and freedoms. Kheriaty agrees that the mass formation mechanism has been part of the problem, but it\u2019s not the only one.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think mass formation is the only mechanism at work in terms of accounting for our COVID response. I discuss that theory in my book. I also consider the more deliberate use and distribution of fear through propaganda.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnd, through other subtle and not so subtle mechanisms of coercion that were operating during the pandemic\u2014[I look at] Financial incentives and power dynamics are also used to explain what has happened and why so many people have accepted it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe control of the flow of information has been extremely important during the pandemic. I think without the government\u2019s partnering with private entities in these vast censorship enterprises, we would not have adopted policies like lockdowns and school closures. We would\u2019ve had much more pushback against policies like vaccine mandates than we saw.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhen you lock people down at home and so they\u2019re isolated behind screens, forced to interact with one another only through this medium, they can\u2019t have quiet face-to-face conversations at the watercooler, then you control the flow of information that they\u2019re getting through the control of social media, the control of mainstream media.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnd then [when] you deploy very sophisticated high-level propaganda techniques\u2014wartime propaganda techniques\u2014and you deliberately deploy fear as a mechanism of control, then you create conditions where people go along with manifestly unjust policies, and not only are not troubled by that, but actually believe that they\u2019re doing good.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThese things are framed as duties of a good citizen. People who are critical of these policies will be immediately labeled. \u2018You only care about money. You don\u2019t care about not killing grandma,\u2019 this sort of thing.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis desire to be a good person, this desire to be seen as among the virtuous because I\u2019ve done what I\u2019m told to do and I\u2019ve done what it looks like everyone else is wanting to do or being told to do, this is a very powerful tonic that has proven to be very effective over the last three years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Understanding the Big Picture is Critical<\/h2>\n<p>Bill Gates, Johns Hopkins and the World Health Organization hosted a tabletop exercise called &#8220;The Tabletop Exercise&#8221; on Oct. 23, 2022. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/takecontrol.substack.com\/p\/bill-gates-plans-new-catastrophic-contagion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Catastrophic Contagion<\/a>,\u201d The use of a novel pathogen, called \u201csevere epidemic enterovirus respiratory syndrome 2025\u201d (SEERS-25), which affects mainly children and teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>Kheriaty answered that COVID-19 was just a way to fine-tune a process that globalists plan to deploy during another pandemic.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cMonkeypox never took hold as the next crisis but, yes, I think we\u2019ve adopted a new model of governance and this is what I argue in \u201cThe New Abnormal\u201d\u2014that even though a lot of these individual policies have been rolled back, some of the problematic policies that we\u2019ve mentioned, the whole infrastructure for lockdowns, for digital surveillance through vaccine passport-type technology and through digital track and trace technology, this infrastructure has been put in place.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s still in place and it\u2019s just waiting for the next declared public health crisis. This new model of governance involves unprecedented level of control over people\u2019s lives, their movements, their speech, their freedom of association, and it requires that we jump from one declared crisis to the next to keep this state of emergency going, so that certain people can maintain power \u2026 and continue to advance their aims.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn Chapter 3 of the book, I talk about what some of the next steps are in the rollout of what I call a biosecurity or biomedical security paradigm\u2014things like digital IDs tied to biometric data like your iris scan, your face ID, your fingerprint; eventually, data from wearables or implantable devices on your vital signs and your moment-to-moment health status or emotional status.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCentral bank digital currencies (CBDCs) will be the financial arm of that monitoring, surveilling, and controlling apparatus, so there\u2019s going to be another declared public health crisis. It is a deliberate attempt to frame other issues such as racism or climate change as public-health issues.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPeople in positions of power have floated serious proposals to do rolling lockdowns to deal with the climate crisis, for example, or the energy crisis in Europe, so we\u2019re going to see something.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhether it\u2019s a computer virus or an enterovirus, a gastrointestinal bug that disproportionately impacts children\u2014because children were largely spared from COVID and not enough parents vaccinated their children in the eyes of the biosecurity paradigm elites\u2014I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know exactly what issue is going to be the one that takes hold, but there will be another declared public health crisis, sometime in the next two to three years, with attempts not only to revive COVID-era policies and mechanisms of control, but to advance additional pieces in that regime. That is what I am confident in.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOne of the reasons I wrote the book \u2026 [was] To look towards the future and to question, \u2018OK, how is this apparatus, this biomedical security apparatus going to be deployed down the road, and what are the next steps in that process?\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c[I ask this ] so that we can realize that if we don\u2019t start standing up for certain freedoms, if we don\u2019t draw lines and say, \u2018These are rights that should never be relinquished, even during an emergency or a declared crisis,\u2019 if we don\u2019t start doing that, and if we\u2019re not aware of what the next steps in this process are going to be and how they\u2019re going to be sold to us, then we\u2019re going to find ourselves caught off guard once again.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn a crisis where there\u2019s fear and uncertainty, we\u2019re not going to be able to think clearly. We\u2019re going to lose our heads again and we\u2019re going to wake up in a year or two or three and wonder, \u2018How did we get here? What happened to us?\u2019 and I don\u2019t want to see that happen again. We\u2019ve already relinquished enough of our freedoms, we\u2019ve already endured the enormous collateral harms of our disastrous pandemic policies, and to my view, we can\u2019t go down that road again in another few years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Looking ahead<\/h2>\n<p>The epilogue of this book, entitled \u201cSeattle 2030,\u201d Kheriaty imagines what life might be like seven years from now, if we don\u2019t change course.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat I do in the first half of the epilogue is try to give the reader a sense of how some of these new technologies and measures are going to be sold to the public, so the first couple of pages of the epilogue don\u2019t seem dystopian \u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s only once you get about halfway through that you start seeing, \u2018OK, there are some flies in the ointment, and there\u2019s people in this society under this regime who are not benefiting, who are excluded by the social credit system and other mechanisms of social and financial control.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere are certainly health problems that are not being solved by twice-a-year mRNA injections, and probably being exacerbated by this model of treating human beings as though we\u2019re hardware that needs software updates in the form of gene therapies.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, by the end of the epilogue, the reader wakes up and recognizes, \u2018Oh, my goodness, this is not the kind of society that I want to live in. This is certainly not the kind of society that I want my children or my grandchildren to grow up in.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t invent any new technologies to describe in the epilogue \u2026 [I say] \u2018A few years from now, if certain things that are readily available are adopted on a mass scale and deployed in particular ways, this is what your life is going to look like. Is this the kind of life that you want to lead?\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s an attempt to bring together the future-oriented gaze of the book and help people really get a firm and concrete grasp of what\u2019s coming down the pike if we don\u2019t stand up and resist.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>Is it possible to resist CBDC implementation?<\/h2>\n<p>The implementation of CBDCs is crucial in the future control scheme. Because once the globalist cabal has access to your money it makes you much more difficult to control. And, the way it\u2019s looking right now, CBDCs are inevitable. But how can we get out of this system?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThis is a really hard problem and it\u2019s a really important question,\u201d\u00a0Kheriaty said.\u00a0\u201cI think we have to learn how to opt out of the system and develop, whether it\u2019s a parallel economy or parallel medical institutions, that truly are independent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe have to do that right now, and we have to develop those things soon, because if we collectively get into an opt-in situation with digital IDs and CBDCs, then resistance to that system will be almost impossible \u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think we need to start thinking small and local, and to develop strong face-to-face communities of communication, interaction, mutual support, and exchange. The currency works because of a communal agreement that when I give you this piece of paper, it\u2019s going to be worth something.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a mutual agreement that we\u2019re going to use this mechanism of exchange, and this mechanism of measuring market value is how currency becomes currency.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo [as a] collective, [we need to say] \u2018No, we\u2019re not going to go cashless.\u2019 If as a collective, we say, \u2018No, we\u2019re not going to transition all of our assets into a centrally controlled digital currency,\u2019 we\u2019ll halt the process of that becoming the default or the only game in town.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBeyond that, I wish I could tell you what the answer looks like and what these parallel economies are going to look like. I don\u2019t know the answer to that, and part of the reason I don\u2019t know the answer is because that\u2019s not how novel solutions develop. Novel solutions don\u2019t develop from a couple of perceptive or intelligent people figuring it all out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey require the collective wisdom of a lot of people trying things, some of which don\u2019t work and some of which work. They require people at the local level asking, \u2018What are the needs of the population here close to home?\u2019 which may look very different from the needs of a population in a different setting or in a different context.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>All Freedom will be lost beyond the point of no return<\/h2>\n<p>Kheriaty goes on to explain why getting out of the control system\u2014once CBDCs are fully implemented and society has gone cashless\u2014will be near-impossible:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cCBDCs need to be distinguished from decentralized digital currencies like Bitcoin. The feds are issuing a digital dollar, and if that digital currency is adopted to the point where we\u2019ve gone entirely cashless, then we\u2019re in a situation in which you can be locked out of your ability to engage in financial transactions if you don\u2019t comply or if you don\u2019t behave.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAnd, as I explain in the book, if you have a digital dollar in your digital wallet, it\u2019s not actually the same as a dollar bill in your real wallet. The reason for that is, let\u2019s say the government gives you $1,000 tax rebate in the form of a digital dollar. They might sweeten the deal with, \u2018We\u2019ll give you a $1,000 check in your bank account or we will give you $1,200 in the form of a digital dollar,\u2019 right?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Oh, OK, I\u2019I&#8217;ll take the digital currency. That\u2019s a no-brainer. It\u2019s more money.\u2019 Well, two to three years from now, once we\u2019ve gone cashless, that digital dollar can be programmed to have conditions attached to it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIn other words, the government can say, \u2018Here\u2019s your tax rebate, but you got to spend this $1,200 sometime in the next nine months, and if you don\u2019t, then it\u2019s going to turn into $600. And if you don\u2019t spend it in the next six months after that, it\u2019s going to disappear.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo what you have in your digital wallet is not actually like cash. Cash doesn\u2019t just disappear. It doesn\u2019t have an expiration date on it. The government may also declare, \u2018You have to spend it on these favored industries.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOr, \u2018You can\u2019These disfavored industries should not be spent on your money. You can\u2019t give a donation or contribution to support Dr. McCullough\u2019s podcast because he\u2019s a disinformation spreader,\u2019 or, \u2018You have to spend it on green energy,\u2019 Or something else.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cOnce this is tied to a digital ID, the government will be able to track all of your financial transactions using this digital currency. It will be able punish and nudge you in the same ways I have described.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf you try to opt out of that system, basically you\u2019re not going to be able to engage in financial transactions, or you\u2019re going to find yourself in some parallel economy that involves bartering chickens or something like that\u2014very primitive kind of economic transactions\u2014because all of the banks and all of society\u2019s mainstream institutions are going to rely on this digital system of productivity and exchange and currency to engage in all transactions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo once the system is in place, it\u2019s going to be very hard to resist because an algorithm in the sky or a person can push a button and, look, you can no longer buy gasoline. Online purchases are not possible unless you have your booster shot and do what the public health officials tell you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s a system of near total surveillance and control that would\u2019ve made the totalitarian dictators of the past salivate. Hitler or Stalin could only have dreamed of this level of intrusive surveillance and minute control over the movements and the behavior of the populations that they were governing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>More Information<\/h2>\n<p>I completely agree with Kheriaty\u2019s notion that it is imperative that people understand where we\u2019re headed\u2014that the COVID measures weren\u2019t just responses to a given pandemic, but rather laid the foundation for a totalitarian one-world government, where human rights and freedoms will no longer exist.<\/p>\n<p>This is the most difficult challenge humanity has faced collectively in history. It requires strong collective resistance. For that resistance to occur, however, people must understand what\u2019s going on. So to learn more, be sure to pick up a copy of Kheriaty\u2019s book \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/New-Abnormal-Biomedical-Security-State\/dp\/1684513855\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State<\/a>\u201d Share it with your family and friends.<\/p>\n<h3>\u25c7 Sources and References<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>The opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of The Epoch Times. Epoch Health encourages professional discussion and friendly debate. Follow these guidelines to submit your opinion piece. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/submission-guidelines_4553495.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Please complete our form.<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of this began in 2020, when the world was turned upside-down. 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