“When do we deploy the new variant?”
So much meaning is wrapped up in those 7 words, written in a WhatsApp message by Matt Hancock, who at the time was the Health Minister in the United Kingdom.
When do we deploy the new variant?” By this, I assume they do not mean actually releasing a new strain of the virus into the wild, an act which I hope is beyond even the most depraved politician or bureaucrat to contemplate.
Rather, they are talking about how to “frighten the pants of [sic] everyone with the new strain.”
Clearly, the new strain itself was not what worried them–they after all are contemplating the timing of when to “deploy” it for maximum fear value–but rather the public’s waning fear of COVID. When, they are wondering, would it be strategically in their best interest to ramp up the fear value for maximum political benefit?
Saving lives wasn’t the point: enforcing compliance with diktats was.
COVID the virus may not have been deployed by any government, but COVID the “emergency” was clearly deployed as a massive plot to strip people of their freedoms and manipulate the public into compliance with absurd demands.
A vast trove of WhatsApp messages was leaked to the British press, and The Telegraph is combing through the 100,000 messages that were never meant to see the light of day. If you think they will confirm some of your worst fears about how the public has been manipulated over the past several years, you are dead right.
For what purpose? The costs have been astronomical and will continue for decades, and none of the measures taken stopped COVID because they didn’t have the means to do so.
The purpose was clearly not the public good, since the costs to the public have been devastating. But there was a massive transfer of wealth and power from the middle class to the wealthy and, in the United States, a transfer of power from the Right to the Left that likely would never have happened without COVID.
