{"id":167426,"date":"2020-08-24T12:02:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T11:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=167426"},"modified":"2025-01-10T15:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:09:09","slug":"from-lockdown-to-police-state-the-great-reset-rolls-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/08\/from-lockdown-to-police-state-the-great-reset-rolls-out\/","title":{"rendered":"From Lockdown to Police State: The \u201cGreat Reset\u201d Rolls Out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayhem in Melbourne<\/em><\/p>\n

22 Aug 2020 – <\/em>On August 2, lockdown measures were implemented in Melbourne, Australia, that were so draconian that Australian news commentator Alan Jones said on Sky News<\/a>: \u201cPeople are entitled to think there is an \u2018agenda to destroy western society.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The gist of an August 13th<\/sup> article on the Melbourne lockdown is captured in the title: \u201cAustralian Police Go FULL NAZI<\/a>, Smashing in Windows of Civilian Cars Just Because Passengers Wouldn\u2019t Give Details About Where They Were Going.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another article with an arresting title was by Guy Burchell in the August 7th<\/sup> Australian National Review<\/em>: \u201cMelbourne Cops May Now Enter Homes Without a Warrant<\/a>, After 11 People Die of COVID \u2014 Australia, This Is Madness, Not Democracy.\u201d<\/span> Burchell wrote that only 147 people had lost their lives to coronavirus in Victoria (the Australian state of which Melbourne is the capital), a very low death rate compared to other countries. The ramped up lockdown measures were triggered by an uptick in cases due to ramped up testing and 11 additional deaths, all of them in nursing homes (where lockdown measures would actually have little effect). The new rules include a six week curfew from 8 PM to 5 AM, with residents allowed to leave home outside those curfew hours only to shop for food and essential items (one household member only), and for caregiving, work and exercise (limited to one hour).<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the piece de resistance<\/em>,\u201d writes Burchell, \u201chas to be that now police officers can enter homes with neither a warrant nor permission. This is an astonishing violation of civil liberties\u2026. Deaths of this kind are not normally cause for government action, let alone the effective house arrest of an entire city.\u201d He quoted Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews, who told Victorians, \u201cthere is literally no reason for you to leave your home and if you were to leave your home and not be found there, you will have a very difficult time convincing Victoria police that you have a lawful reason.\u201d Burchell commented:<\/p>\n

[U]nder this new regime you can\u2019t even remain in your house unmolested by the cops, they can just pop \u2018round anytime to make sure you haven\u2019t had Bruce and Sheila from next door round for a couple of drinks. All over a disease that is simply not that fatal\u2026.<\/p>\n

Last year more than\u00a0310,000\u00a0Australians were hospitalised with flu and over 900 died. By all metrics that makes flu a worse threat than COVID-19 but police weren\u2019t granted Stasi-like powers during the flu season. Millions of people weren\u2019t confined to their homes and threatened with AUS$5,000 fines for not having a good reason for being out of their homes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At an August 19th<\/sup> press conference<\/a>, Australia\u2019s second most senior medical officer said the government would be discussing measures such as banning restaurants, international travel, public transport, and withholding government programs through \u201cNo Jab No Pay\u201d in order to coerce vaccine resisters.<\/p>\n

An August 13 article on LifeSiteNews<\/em><\/a> quoted Father Glen Tattersall, a Catholic parish priest in Melbourne, who said the draconian provisions \u201csimply cannot be justified on a scientific basis\u201d:<\/p>\n

We have a curfew from 8 pm to 5 am, rigorously enforced including by the use of police helicopters and search lights. Is the virus a vampire that just comes out at night? Or the wearing of masks: they must be worn everywhere outside, even in a park where you are nowhere near any other person. Why? Does the virus leap hundreds of metres through the air? This is all about inducing mass fear, and humiliating the populace by demanding external compliance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why the strict curfew? Curfews have been implemented recently in the US to deter violence during protests, but no violence of that sort was reported in Melbourne. What was reported, at least on social media<\/a>, were planes landing in the night<\/a> from \u200ethe Chinese province of Guandong carrying equipment related to 5G and the Chinese biometric social credit system, which was reportedly being installed under a blanket of secrecy.<\/p>\n

Angelo Codevilla, professor emeritus at Boston University, concluded<\/a> in an August 13th<\/sup> article, \u201cWe are living through a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat<\/em> based on the oldest of ploys: declaring emergencies, suspending law and rights, and issuing arbitrary rules of behavior to excuse taking \u2018full powers\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Questioning the Narrative<\/strong><\/p>\n

Melbourne has gone to extremes with its lockdown measures, but it could portend things to come globally. Lockdowns were originally sold to the public as being necessary just for a couple of weeks to \u201cflatten the curve,\u201d to prevent hospital overcrowding from COVID-19 cases. It has now been over five months, with self-appointed vaccine czar Bill Gates intoning<\/a> that we will not be able to return to \u201cnormal\u201d until the entire global population of 7 billion people has been vaccinated. He has since backed off on the numbers, but commentators everywhere are reiterating that lockdowns are the \u201cnew normal,\u201d which could last for years.<\/p>\n

All this is such a radical curtailment of our civil liberties that we need to look closely at the evidence justifying it; and when we do, that evidence is weak. The isolation policies were triggered by estimates from the Imperial College London<\/a> of 510,000 UK deaths and 2.2 million US deaths, more than 10 times the actual death rate from COVID-19. A Stanford\u00a0University antibody study<\/a> estimated that the fatality rate if infected was only about 0.1 to 0.2 percent; and in an August 4th<\/sup> blog post<\/a>, Bill Gates himself acknowledged that the death rate was only 0.14 percent, not much higher than for the flu. But restrictive measures have gotten more onerous rather than less as the mortality figures have been revised downward.<\/p>\n

A July 2020 UK study from Loughborough and Sheffield Universities found that government policy over the lockdown period has actually increased mortality rather than reducing it, after factoring in collateral damage including deaths from cancers and other serious diseases that are being left untreated, a dramatic increase in suicides and drug overdose, and poverty and malnourishment due to unemployment. Globally, according to UNICEF, 1.2 million child deaths are expected<\/a> as a direct result of the lockdowns. A data analyst in South Africa asserts that the\u00a0consequences of the country\u2019s lockdown will lead to 29 times more deaths than from the coronavirus itself<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Countries and states that did very little to restrict their populations, including Sweden and South Dakota, have fared as well as or better overall than locked down US states. In an August 12th<\/sup> article in The UK Telegraph<\/em> titled \u201cSweden\u2019s Success Shows the True Cost of Our Arrogant, Failed Establishment<\/a>,\u201d Allister Heath writes:<\/p>\n

Sweden got it largely right, and the British establishment catastrophically wrong. Anders Tegnell, Stockholm\u2019s epidemiologist-\u200bking, has pulled off a remarkable triple whammy: far fewer deaths per capita than Britain, a maintenance of basic freedoms and opportunities, including schooling, and, most strikingly, a recession less than half as severe as our own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not restraining the populace has allowed Sweden\u2019s curve to taper off naturally through \u201cherd immunity,\u201d with daily deaths down to single digits for the last month. (See chart<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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The Pandemic That Wasn\u2019t?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also bringing the official narrative into question is the unreliability of the tests on which the lockdowns have been based. In a Wired<\/em> interview<\/a>, even Bill Gates acknowledged that most US test results are \u201cgarbage.\u201d The Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technology used in the nasal swab test is considered the \u201cgold standard\u201d for COVID-19 detection; yet the PCR test was regarded by its own inventor, Nobel prize winner Kary Mullis, as\u00a0inappropriate to detect viral infection<\/a>. In a detailed June 27th<\/sup> analysis titled \u201cCOVID-19 PCR Tests Are Scientifically Meaningless<\/a>,\u201d Torsten Engelbrecht\u00a0and Konstantin Demeter conclude:<\/p>\n

Without doubt eventual excess mortality rates are caused by the therapy and by the lockdown measures, while the \u201cCOVID-19\u201d death statistics comprise also patients who died of a variety of diseases, redefined as COVID-19 only because of a \u201cpositive\u201d test result whose value could not be more doubtful.<\/p>\n

The authors discussed a January 2007 New York Times<\/em> article titled \u201cFaith in Quick Test Leads to Epidemic That Wasn\u2019t<\/a>,\u201d describing an apparent whooping cough epidemic in a New Hampshire hospital. The epidemic was verified by preliminary PCR tests given to nearly 1,000 healthcare workers, who were subsequently furloughed. Eight months later, the \u201cepidemic\u201d was found to be a false alarm. Not a single case<\/em> of whooping cough was confirmed by the \u201cgold standard\u201d test \u2013 growing pertussis bacteria in the laboratory. All<\/em> of the cases found through the PCR test were false positives.<\/p>\n

Yet \u201ctest, test, test\u201d was the message proclaimed for all countries by WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom at a media briefing on\u00a0March 16, 2020<\/a>, five days after WHO officially declared COVID-19; and the test recommended as the gold standard was the PCR. Why, when it had already been demonstrated to be unreliable, creating false positives that gave the appearance of an epidemic when there was none? Or was that the goal \u2013 to create the appearance<\/em> of a pandemic, one so vast that the global economy had to be brought to a standstill until a vaccine could be found? Recall Prof. Codevilla\u2019s conclusion: \u201cWe are living through a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat<\/em> based on the oldest of ploys: declaring emergencies, suspending law and rights, and issuing arbitrary rules of behavior to excuse taking \u2018full powers\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

People desperate to get back to work will not only submit to a largely untested vaccine but will agree to surveillance measures that would have been considered a flagrant violation of their civil rights if those rights had not been overridden by a \u201cnational emergency\u201d justifying preemption by the police powers of the state. They will agree to get \u201cimmunity passports\u201d in order to travel and participate in group activities, and they will submit to quarantines, curfews, contact tracings, social credit scores and informing on the neighbors. The emergency must be kept going to justify these unprecedented violations of their liberties, in which decision-making is removed from elected representatives and handed to unelected bureaucrats and technocrats.<\/p>\n

A national health crisis also a necessary prerequisite for relief from liability for personal injuries from the drugs and other products deployed in response to the crisis. Under the 2005 Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act\u00a0(PREPA), in the event of a declared public health emergency, manufacturers are shielded from tort liability for injuries both from the vaccines and from invalid or invasive tests. Compensation for personal injuries is a massive expense for drug companies, and the potential profits from a product free of that downside are a gold mine for pharmaceutical companies and investors. The liabilities will be borne by the taxpayers and the victims.<\/p>\n

All this, however, presupposes both an existing public health emergency and no effective treatment to defuse it. That helps explain the otherwise inexplicable war on hydroxychloroquine<\/a>, a safe drug that has been in use and available over the counter for 65 years and has been shown to be effective<\/a> in multiple studies when used early in combination with zinc and an antibiotic. A table prepared by the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons\u00a0(below<\/a>) found that the US has nearly 30 times as many deaths per capita as countries making early and prophylactic use of hydroxychloroquine.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0latest international testing<\/a>\u00a0of hydroxychloroquine treatment of coronavirus shows countries that had early use of the drug had a\u00a079% lower mortality rate\u00a0than countries that banned the use of the safe malaria drug. Lowering the US mortality rate by 79% could have saved over 100,000 lives. But an effective, inexpensive COVID-19 treatment would mean the end of the alleged pandemic and the vaccine bonanza it purports to justify.<\/p>\n

The need to maintain the appearance of a pandemic also explains the inflated reports of cases and deaths. Hospitals have been rewarded with increased fees for reclassifying cases as COVID-19. As deaths declined in the US, the numbers of cases reported by the Centers for Disease Control were also gamed to make it appear<\/a> that America was in a \u201csecond wave\u201d of a pandemic. The reporting criterion was changed on May 18 from people who tested positive for the virus only to people who tested positive for either the virus or its antibodies. The exploding numbers thus include people who have recovered from COVID-19 as well as false positives.\u00a0The Loughborough and Sheffield researchers found that when controlling for other factors affecting mortality, actual deaths due to COVID-19 are 54% to 63% lower than implied by the standard excess deaths measure.<\/p>\n

Ushering in \u201cThe Great Reset\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Forcing compliance with global vaccine mandates is one obvious motive for maintaining the appearance of an ongoing pandemic, but what would be the motive for destroying the global economy with forced lockdowns? What is behind the \u201cagenda to destroy Western society\u201d suspected by Australian commentator Alan Jones?<\/p>\n

Evidently it is this: destroying the old is necessary to usher in the new. Global economic destruction paves the way for the \u201cGreat Reset\u201d now being promoted by the World Economic Forum, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the International Monetary Fund and other big global players.<\/p>\n

Although cast as arising from the pandemic, the \u201cglobal economic reset\u201d is a concept<\/a> that was floated as early as 2014 by Christine Lagarde, then head of the IMF, and is said to be a recharacterization of the \u201cNew World Order\u201d discussed long before that. It was promoted as a solution to the ongoing economic crisis triggered in 2008.<\/p>\n

The World Economic Forum \u2013 that elite group of businessmen, politicians and academics that meets in Davos, Switzerland, every January \u2013 announced in June that the Great Reset would be the theme of its 2021 Summit. Klaus Schwab, founder<\/a> of the Forum, admonished:<\/p>\n

The world must act jointly and swiftly to revamp all aspects of our societies and economies, from education to social contracts and working conditions. Every country, from the United States to China, must participate, and every industry, from oil and gas to tech, must be transformed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No country will be allowed to opt out because it would be endangering the rest, just as no person will be allowed to escape the COVID-19 vaccine for the same reason.<\/p>\n

Who is behind the Great Reset and what it really entails are major questions that need their own article, but suffice it to say here that to escape the trap of the globalist agenda, we need a mass awakening to what is really going on and collective resistance to it while there is still time. There are hopeful signs that this is happening, including massive protests against economic shutdowns and restrictions, particularly in Europe; a rash of lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the lockdowns and of police power overreach; and a flood of alternative media expos\u00e9s despite widespread censorship.<\/p>\n

Life as we know it will change. We need to ensure that it changes in ways that serve the people and the productive economy, while preserving our national sovereignty and hard-won personal freedoms.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em>Ellen Brown is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>, an attorney, founder\/chairperson of the\u00a0<\/em>Public Banking Institute<\/a>, and author of thirteen books including\u00a0<\/em>Web of Debt<\/a>,\u00a0The Public Bank Solution<\/a>, and\u00a0<\/em>Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in the Digital Age<\/a>.\u00a0Her 300+ blog articles are at\u00a0ellenbrown.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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