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|description=Nominally caused by a desire to save human life by slowing the spread of [[COVID-19]], the global campaign to institute lockdowns can also be interpreted as a global power grab by the [[supranational deep state]].
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|description = Nominally caused by a desire to save human life by slowing the spread of [[COVID-19]], the near global campaign to institute lockdowns can also be interpreted as a global power grab by the [[supranational deep state]].
 
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'''Many nation states have introduced unprecedented legal restrictions, heavy-handed ''' '''''stay-at-home orders''''' '''on citizens in response to [[COVID-19]]'''.  
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[[image:it really had a lot to do with what people would tolerate.png|left|300px|thumbnail|A moment of candor from the [[CDC]] about the so-called "COVID lockdowns".]]
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'''In early 2020, many nation states introduced unprecedented legal restrictions on [[freedom of movement]], termed a "COVID lockdown"''', because it was nominally as a response to [[COVID-19]]. Officially only intended to last matter of weeks, in most nations they stretched into months, and were repeated. While they had unprecedented [[effects on society]], as of early 2021, evidence that they impacted the spread of [[Covid-19]] significantly is remarkably thin.
  
The first was [[China]], after the COVID-19 outbreak in [[Wuhan]]. The tendency accelerated after the 11 March official declaration by the [[WHO]] of the [[COVID Pandemic]].
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[[image:Female inmates inside their maximum security prison cells lockdown.jpg|thumbnail|right|350px|Indicating who thought out this strategy, the word "lockdown" stems from the [[US prison system]], referring to the locking of all prisoners in their cells<ref>https://www.dictionary.com/browse/lockdown</ref>]]
  
==Official narrative==
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Apart from a brief attempt in [[Mexico]] in [[2009]]<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/apr/30/swine-flu-mexico-government-lockdown</ref>, which quickly abandoned it, lockdowns have ''never'' been attempted as a disease-reducing strategy before{{cn}}, which makes it remarkable that it was chosen as a strategy for all 8 billion people in the world, untried on a smaller scale.
[[image:The Hammer and the Dance.png|480px|left|thumbnail|The headline graphic of ''The Hammer and the Dance'', an argument for lockdown measures to  "flatten the curve".]]
 
The logic of the lockdown was presented in [[Thomas Pueyo]]'s ''The Hammer and the Dance''. He summarised his 19 March 2020 piece that "Strong coronavirus measures today should only last a few weeks, there shouldn’t be a big peak of infections afterwards, and it can all be done for a reasonable cost to society, saving millions of lives along the way. If we don’t take these measures, tens of millions will be infected, many will die, along with anybody else that requires intensive care, because the healthcare system will have collapsed."<ref>https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56</ref>
 
  
===Concerns===
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The first lockdown was in [[China]], after a declared [[COVID-19]] outbreak in [[Wuhan]], when 100 million were locked in their homes. The tendency accelerated after the 11 March official declaration by the [[WHO]] of the [[COVID Pandemic]] and the vast majority of [[nation state]]s followed his policy.  
Many nation states have been repeatedly renewing legal restrictions introduced as "temporary" measures. Moreover, comparison with nation states (most notably [[Sweden]]) which have not had them shows little clear benefit as far as stemming Covid infection. By late April, as more tests were carried out, various studies were suggesting that the case fatality rate was much lower that the "3.4%" announced by the [[WHO Director general]], perhaps an order of magnitude lower, or even more, and so has been eclipsed by the economic and social disruption due to the lockdown measures themselves. By early May most mainstream media outlets have started to speculate on a coming second wave of the coronavirus in different countries.<ref>https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/second-virus-wave-how-bad-will-it-be-lockdowns-ease</ref><ref>https://abc7ny.com/coronavirus-second-wave-of-cases-us/6156117/</ref> The extended lockdown with reduced sunlight exposure and exercise, in combination with an increase in malnutrition especially in poor countries,<ref>https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/04/jayant-bhandari/indias-hunger-games/ saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20200414040511/https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/04/jayant-bhandari/indias-hunger-games/ Archive.org] saved at [http://archive.is/C4hdw Archive.is]</ref> will have weakened the immune systems in many people globally, leading in the end to additional illnesses of all kinds.
 
  
==Consequences==
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The presumption was that this would prevent health systems from being overloaded, an event which never happened on a national level. Whether such policies have actually had much impact on the spread of the virus is debatable.<ref>Nations without a lockdown (for example [[Sweden]], [[Belarus]] and [[Burundi]]) have fairly comparable rates of virus activity.</ref>
The {{on}} about the COVID lockdowns is that they are needed to prevent a heavy loss of life by "flattening the curve" and preventing health systems from being overloaded by a huge spike in critically ill patients. This point has merit, but is debatable; alternatives exist, such as self-isolation or promoting infection of the least vulnerable (i.e the young and healthy) to hasten herd immunity by preventing them from acting as carriers. Some doctors have claimed that the "social distancing" is a conterproductive strategy that is prolonging and deepening the risks to life.<ref>https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/dr-wittkowski-lockdown-is-the-worst-strategy/</ref>
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Over the Summer of 2020, as awareness grew that [[COVID-19]]'s IFR was nowhere near the 3.4% initially announced by [[Dr. Tedros]], lockdowns were relaxed either ''de jure'' or ''de facto'' and increasing attention was paid to other motives behind the global lockdown, such as [[social engineering]]. In Autumn 2020, COVID testing was massively increased, the number of cases detected also increased, sparking a second wave of lockdowns in Europe.
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== Official narrative ==
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[[image:lockdowns are quietly improving cities around the world.png|left|300px|thumbnail|A [[WEF]] tweet which was quickly deleted after it raised criticism.]]
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[[image:The Hammer and the Dance.png|480px|right|thumbnail|The headline graphic of the "mysteriously viral" ''The Hammer and the Dance'', an argument for lockdown measures to  "[[flatten the curve]]".]]
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The logic of the lockdown was presented in [[Thomas Pueyo]]'s "mysteriously viral"<ref>https://eugyppius.substack.com/p/the-hammer-and-the-dance-a-retrospective</ref> ''The Hammer and the Dance''. He summarised his 19 March 2020 piece that "Strong coronavirus measures today should only last a few weeks, there shouldn’t be a big peak of infections afterwards, and it can all be done for a reasonable cost to society, saving millions of lives along the way. If we don’t take these measures, tens of millions will be infected, many will die, along with anybody else that requires intensive care, because the healthcare system will have collapsed."<ref>https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo/coronavirus-the-hammer-and-the-dance-be9337092b56</ref>
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On the third anniversary of the first lockdown, [[The Guardian]] still insists lockdowns were worth it.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/23/lockdown-sceptics-history-academics-left-covid</ref>
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=== Concerns ===
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Many nation states have been repeatedly renewing legal restrictions introduced as "temporary" measures. Moreover, comparison with nation-states (most notably [[Sweden]]) which have not had them shows little clear benefit as far as stemming Covid infection. By late April, as more tests were carried out, various studies were suggesting that the case fatality rate was much lower that the "3.4%" announced by the [[WHO Director general]], perhaps an order of magnitude lower, or even more, and so has been eclipsed by the economic and social disruption due to the lockdown measures themselves. By early May most corporate media outlets have started to speculate on a coming second wave of the coronavirus in different countries.<ref>https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/second-virus-wave-how-bad-will-it-be-lockdowns-ease</ref><ref>https://abc7ny.com/coronavirus-second-wave-of-cases-us/6156117/</ref>
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==== Anxiety ====
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The website [[Just Facts]], whose reporting is at times picked up by [[corporate media]],<ref>http://archive.today/2020.10.22-142648/https://www.justfacts.com/aboutus</ref> reported in May 2020: "anxiety created by reactions to Covid-19—such as stay-at-home orders, business shutdowns, media exaggerations, and legitimate concerns about the virus—will destroy at least seven times more years of human life than can possibly be saved by lockdowns to control the spread of the disease."<ref>https://www.justfacts.com/news_covid-19_anxiety_lockdowns_life_destroyed_saved saved at [http://web.archive.org/web/20200506073113/https://www.justfacts.com/news_covid-19_anxiety_lockdowns_life_destroyed_saved Archive.org] saved at [http://archive.is/eAahL Archive.is]</ref>
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=== Lock Step ===
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{{FA|Lock Step}}
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'''[[Lock Step]]''' is one of four scenarios in a [[Rockefeller Foundation]]-funded paper, released in May 2010, with the bland title “'''''[[Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development]]''''' ['''PDF'''],” and it includes a method to gain complete prison-like control of the entire population by infecting them with a biological pandemic.
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In cooperation with the [[Global Business Network]] the simulation of futurologist [[Peter Schwartz]], "a world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback" is described as '''[[Lock Step]]'''.<ref>https://swprs.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/rockefeller-foundation-scenarios-2010.pdf</ref>
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"In order '''to protect themselves''' from the spread of increasingly global problems — from pandemics and transnational terrorism to environmental crises and rising poverty — '''leaders''' around the world took a firmer grip on power." <ref>https://needtoknow.news/2020/03/rockefeller-foundation-paper-published-in-2010-predicted-how-a-pandemic-can-be-used-as-an-excuse-to-establish-global-authoritarian-power/</ref> The '''firmer grip on power''' is reflected in the other scenarios as well, in a mix of [[soft power]] and [[hard power]] techniques.
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A video on [[153News.net]]: [https://153news.net/watch_video.php?v=GD23U9H4WKBD 'Operation Lockstep Rockefeller Plan for Martial Law 2010' (2m20s) (2020-06-02)]
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== Consequences ==
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[[image:Get_vaccinated-May_2021-Phoenix_AZ.jpg|right|360px|thumb|Phoenix, AZ. May 6, 2021]]
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The {{on}} about the COVID lockdowns has changed over time. The initial claim was that they were needed to prevent a heavy loss of life by "flattening the curve" and preventing health systems from being overloaded by a huge spike in critically ill patients. This point contradicts the [[WHO]]'s previous guidance in this area, but was adopted almost worldwide, with only a few countries resistsing. Several doctors have claimed that the "social distancing" is a conter-productive strategy that prolongs and deepens the risks to life.<ref>https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/disease/dr-wittkowski-lockdown-is-the-worst-strategy/</ref>
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The extended lockdown with reduced sunlight exposure, exercise and social life, in combination with an increase in malnutrition especially in poor countries,<ref>https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/04/jayant-bhandari/indias-hunger-games/ saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20200414040511/https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/04/jayant-bhandari/indias-hunger-games/ Archive.org] saved at [http://archive.is/C4hdw Archive.is]</ref> will have weakened the immune systems in many people globally, leading to additional illnesses of all kinds.
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=== New Normal ===
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::'''''This section requires expansion.'''''
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Quote by investigative journalist [[Patrick Henningsen]]:
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|text=Anywhere you see the phrase, "the [[New Normal]]" – you should reject it. It's based on fraudulent premise that #COVID19 is somehow fundamentally much greater threat than other infectious diseases, when it's not. Anyone pushing this should be confronted and publicly admonished.
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|date=19 May 2020
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A [https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=Gz7ctIc9NV0 video interview (48:32) (2020-12-29)] featuring [[Catherine Austin Fitts]] (for the ''[https://PlanetLockdownFilm.com Planet Lockdown]'' documentary) clearly explains a greater global context of the [[ruling class]]' purpose for the entire [[plandemic]] [[lockdown]] and chaos scam, tying this "[[new normal]]" to their economic [[The Great Reset|Great Reset]] for their tyrannical [[technocracy]] and [[transhumanist]] plans known as [[Agenda 21]] / [[Agenda 2030]].  Most startling are the deliberate paths of destruction caused by the 2020 summer [[Black Lives Matter|BLM]] / [[George Floyd riots]] to steal real estate within the [[Federal Reserve]]'s "[[Opportunity Zones]]" established in 2018 (explained @ 28:38+).
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* [https://SaidIt.net/s/NoNewNormal/ NoNewNormal] - aggregated articles and discussions on [[SaidIt.net]]
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=== Lockdown skepticism ===
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::'''''This section requires expansion.'''''
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* [https://SaidIt.net/s/LockdownSkepticism/ LockdownSkepticism] - aggregated articles and discussions on [[SaidIt.net]]
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=== Social change ===
  
===Social change===
 
 
[[image:we need big brother to beat this virus.jpg|[[Clare Foges]] for ''[[The Times]]''|right|270px]]
 
[[image:we need big brother to beat this virus.jpg|[[Clare Foges]] for ''[[The Times]]''|right|270px]]
 
[[image:COVID-1984.jpg|right|270px|thumbnail|''COVID-1984 Fuck [[Bill Gates]]'', May 11 2020, Munich, Germany]]
 
[[image:COVID-1984.jpg|right|270px|thumbnail|''COVID-1984 Fuck [[Bill Gates]]'', May 11 2020, Munich, Germany]]
The testimony of [[Donald Trump]] that he was presented with threatening statistics in his office points to [[US Deep state]] involvement, while the coordinated nature of the Covid-19 lockdowns, and the dubius efficacy at achieving their stated aims, suggests that they were arranged by [[The Supranational Deep State]]. SDS involvement would suggest that the event is being exploited to promote their agenda of [[social control]] through imposition of a [[global control grid]].
 
  
Many national governments introduced "temporary" legislation eponymously connected to the virus. In the UK, on 19 March 2020, the government announced that "[[COVID-19]] is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease".<ref>https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid</ref> On 23 March the 329-page "[[The Coronavirus Bill]]" was introduced and by 25 March it had become law. [[Silkie Carlo]] called it "the greatest loss of liberty in our history".<ref>https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/03/25/coronavirus-bill-the-greatest-loss-of-liberty-in-our-history/</ref>
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The testimony of [[Donald Trump]] that he was presented with threatening statistics in his office points to [[US Deep state]] involvement, while the coordinated nature of the Covid-19 lockdowns, and the dubious efficacy at achieving their stated aims, suggests that they were arranged by [[The Supranational Deep State]]. SDS involvement would suggest that the event is being exploited to promote their agenda of [[social control]] through imposition of a [[global control grid]].
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Many national governments introduced "temporary" [[COVID-19 legislation|legislation]] eponymously connected to the virus. In the UK, on 19 March 2020, the government announced that "[[COVID-19]] is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease".<ref>https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid</ref> On 23 March the 329-page "[[The Coronavirus Bill]]" was introduced and by 25 March it had become law. [[Silkie Carlo]] called it "the greatest loss of liberty in our history".<ref>https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/03/25/coronavirus-bill-the-greatest-loss-of-liberty-in-our-history/</ref>
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==== Suppression of lockdown protests ====
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Three countries that did order a lockdown early on, that also had nation wide (political) protests going on, were [[Spain]], [[France]] and [[Chile]]. It is likely that a lockdown regime is being introduced that will make large gatherings to protest against war, like in [[Iraq War/Opposition|2003 against the Iraq war]], impossible.
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=== Financial fraud ===
  
===Financial fraud===
 
 
{{FA|COVID-19/Economy}}
 
{{FA|COVID-19/Economy}}
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The small group with foreknowledge of the lockdown could predict that the economy would crash and so cash out, selling their holdings and using the futures market to profit from the event. In this sense, the event can be compared to the [[2008 Market Crash]]. On 26 March 2020, some 3.3 million US citizens were out of work and seeking financial help from the government,<ref>
 
The small group with foreknowledge of the lockdown could predict that the economy would crash and so cash out, selling their holdings and using the futures market to profit from the event. In this sense, the event can be compared to the [[2008 Market Crash]]. On 26 March 2020, some 3.3 million US citizens were out of work and seeking financial help from the government,<ref>
 
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/26/us-unemployment-rate-coronavirus-business</ref> a number that had doubled by 2 April.<ref>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-04-02/jobless-claims-unemployment-coronavirus</ref>
 
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/mar/26/us-unemployment-rate-coronavirus-business</ref> a number that had doubled by 2 April.<ref>https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-04-02/jobless-claims-unemployment-coronavirus</ref>
  
===Food shortages===
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=== Food shortages ===
Since the general restrictions are in place, the free movement of seasonal workers for the harvest is impossible. It has been reported that this is threatening the fruit and vegetable output in [[Europe]],<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/europe-food-supply-coronavirus/2020/03/31/f0650808-729a-11ea-ad9b-254ec99993bc_story.html saved at [http://archive.is/bijnj Archive.is]</ref> the [[United States]]<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-farmworkers/canada-u-s-farms-face-crop-losses-due-to-foreign-worker-delays-idUSKBN21O179 saved at [http://archive.is/oZojX Archive.is]</ref> and [[Australia]]<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/17/harvests-could-be-lost-if-travel-restrictions-lead-to-labour-shortages-on-australian-farms</ref> for 2020 season. The German government, after being pressured to rethink its position,<ref>https://www.ft.com/content/871b6d39-4497-49c5-856c-549cb42e67ce saved at [https://archive.vn/3yXXz Archive.is]</ref> lifted the restrictions for seasonal workers partially.
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Since the general restrictions are in place, the free movement of seasonal workers for the harvest is impossible. It has been reported that this is threatening the fruit and vegetable output in [[Europe]],<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/europe-food-supply-coronavirus/2020/03/31/f0650808-729a-11ea-ad9b-254ec99993bc_story.html saved at [http://archive.is/bijnj Archive.is]</ref> the [[United States]]<ref>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-farmworkers/canada-u-s-farms-face-crop-losses-due-to-foreign-worker-delays-idUSKBN21O179 saved at [http://archive.is/oZojX Archive.is]</ref> and [[Australia]]<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/17/harvests-could-be-lost-if-travel-restrictions-lead-to-labour-shortages-on-australian-farms</ref> for 2020 season. The German government, after being pressured to rethink its position,<ref>https://www.ft.com/content/871b6d39-4497-49c5-856c-549cb42e67ce saved at [https://archive.vn/3yXXz Archive.is]</ref> lifted the restrictions for seasonal workers partially. The crisis coincides with the beginning of a period of reduced sun activity that may last several decades.<ref>https://www.livescience.com/61716-sun-cooling-global-warming.html</ref> Reports about approaching shortages did continues throughout the year [[2020]],<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jun/09/world-faces-worst-food-crisis-50-years-un-coronavirus</ref><ref>https://reliefweb.int/report/world/new-research-covid-19-economic-and-food-supply-chain-disruptions-endanger-global-food saved at [http://web.archive.org/web/20200802081628/https://reliefweb.int/report/world/new-research-covid-19-economic-and-food-supply-chain-disruptions-endanger-global-food Archive.org]</ref> and intensified in [[2021]].<ref>https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/economy/arid-40371950.html</ref><ref>http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/why-is-there-suddenly-an-extremely-severe-shortage-of-workers-all-over-the-world/</ref>
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A [[Food Chain Reaction|2015 simulation]] by the [[Big Agriculture]] corporation [[Cargill]] predicted up to 400 % increase in food prices by [[2030]]; it discussed an upcoming carbon and meat tax.<ref>https://www.theorganicprepper.com/simulation-400-increase-food-prices-2030/ saved at [http://web.archive.org/web/20201012214027/https://www.theorganicprepper.com/simulation-400-increase-food-prices-2030/ Archive.org] saved at [http://archive.is/ubxNx Archive.is]</ref><ref>http://archive.today/2020.09.04-201243/https://www.cargill.com/story/food-chain-reaction-simulation-ends-with-global-carbon-tax</ref>
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In [[Great Britain]], food shortages are being blamed on [[Brexit]].
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===Urbanisation===
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{{FA|Urban depopulation}}
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People are leaving cities to escape restrictions.
  
 
==Perpetrators==
 
==Perpetrators==
 
The COVID-19 lockdown is a massive curtailment of long established values such as [[freedom of movement]] and the overriding of the economic imperative. The only group capable of organising such an event is the [[supranational deep state]].
 
The COVID-19 lockdown is a massive curtailment of long established values such as [[freedom of movement]] and the overriding of the economic imperative. The only group capable of organising such an event is the [[supranational deep state]].
  
==By country==
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==Opponents==
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[[image:Esther McVey Lockdown.png|left|500px|thumbnail|British MP [[Esther McVey]]'s Instagram story, showing her anti-[[lockdown]] article for the [[Daily Express|Sunday Express]] on Sunday 5th September 2021.]]
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Most politicians generally have supported lockdowns, but there have been a few opponents.
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[[South Dakota]] was the only US state not to lock down. Governor [[Kristi Noem]] was attacked by the [[CCM]] for her actions.
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== Lockdown refusal nations ==
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Some nation-states refused to severely curtail [[freedom of movement]] in response to the virus.
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=== Belarus ===
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[[Belarusian President]] [[Alyaksandr Lukashenka]] refused to lockdown the country and said countries enforcing tough measures have fallen victim to "frenzy and psychosis".<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-belarus-alexander-lukashenko-vodka-sauna-countryside-tractors-a9434426.html</ref>
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=== Burundi ===
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[[Burundian President]] [[Pierre Nkurunziza]] refused to lockdown the country and expelled WHO officials. He suddenly died on 8 June 2020, officially of a "[[heart attack]]", aged 55.
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=== Sweden ===
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[[Sweden]] attracted criticism as a European holdout, resisting strong legal sanctions of other European nations, causing disquiet among (locked down) Danes. It was widely criticized by the {{ccm}} for this until around August, by which point the first wave was effectively over in Sweden. The [[Sweden Democrats]] supported the actions of the Social Democrat government.<ref>https://www.rt.com/op-ed/532507-lundgren-mep-sweden-lockdown-trust/</ref> The [[2021 Swedish government crisis|government suffered a crisis]] in June 2021.
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=== Tanzania ===
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The [[President of Tanzania]], [[John Magufuli]], a close friend of [[Pierre Nkurunziza]], also refused to instigate a lockdown, dies of "[[heart failure]]" in March 2021.
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== Lockdown nations ==
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=== Austria ===
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In November 2021 [[Austria]] declared a "lockdown for the unvaccinated",<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59283128#:~:text=About%20two%20million%20people%20who,faces%20a%20surge%20in%20cases.</ref> which a week later became a lockdown for all citizens and a nationwide mandate of "COVID vaccines".
  
===Australia===
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=== Australia ===
 
{{FA|Australia/National COVID-19 Coordination Commission‎}}
 
{{FA|Australia/National COVID-19 Coordination Commission‎}}
 
The [[Australia/National COVID-19 Coordination Commission‎]], set up in March 2020{{cn}} included [[Jane Halton]] who took part in [[Event 201]].
 
The [[Australia/National COVID-19 Coordination Commission‎]], set up in March 2020{{cn}} included [[Jane Halton]] who took part in [[Event 201]].
  
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The harsh lockdown that has been put in place in the country from August 2020 on, which complicates travel, as a result prevents farmers from being able to tend to their lifestock<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypsFLQ3inlY saved at [http://archive.today/2020.10.22-152607/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypsFLQ3inlY Archive.is]</ref> and people from getting necessary medical care. [[Nine News Australia]] reported on October 20, 2020 that four newborns died because they were prevented to from getting life saving heart surgery.<ref>https://twitter.com/9NewsAUS/status/1318632532716457986 saved at [https://archive.is/GaC6J Archive.is]</ref><ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/four-newborn-babies-die-australia-after-being-denied-heart-surgery-due-covid-travel-rules</ref>
[[Belarusian President]] [[Alyaksandr Lukashenka]] refused to lockdown the country and said countries enforcing tough measures have fallen victim to "frenzy and psychosis".<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-belarus-alexander-lukashenko-vodka-sauna-countryside-tractors-a9434426.html</ref>
 
  
===Brazil===
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=== Brazil ===
 
[[Luiz Henrique Mandetta]] was sacked in April 2020 after publicly opposing the Lockdown policies in force in [[Brazil]].<ref>https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/brazil-s-political-crisis-deepens-after-bolsonaro-sacks-health-minister-1.4231778</ref>
 
[[Luiz Henrique Mandetta]] was sacked in April 2020 after publicly opposing the Lockdown policies in force in [[Brazil]].<ref>https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/brazil-s-political-crisis-deepens-after-bolsonaro-sacks-health-minister-1.4231778</ref>
  
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=== France ===
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The [[French]] curfew started in October of 2020 was reported by the government itself to "have no effect whatsoever" on the 27th of January 2021. The French had extended the curfew 4 months later to a 6PM to 6AM curfew. Prime Minister Cantex (who silenced<ref>https://cv19.fr/2020/12/28/delit-de-blaspheme-medical-sous-controle-inquisiteur-du-conseil-de-lordre-des-medecins/</ref> [[doctors]] by law one month earlier) was believed by [[TV]]-sources to have publicly critiqued the curfew to avoid "Dutch situations" referencing the massive Dutch riots in the last weeks of January following their first curfew.<ref>https://www.bfmtv.com/politique/reconfinement-castaner-s-inquiete-du-niveau-d-acceptation-sociale-des-francais_AN-202101270186.html</ref> Cantex failed to mention the French had been rioting for weeks on three separate occasions already (with at least one death confirmed after an assault in public transport)<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53367432</ref>, seemingly paving the way for a longer [[strategy of tension]] as [[Emmanuel Macron]] was reported to even enact a more severe lockdown.<ref>https://www.francetvinfo.fr/sante/maladie/coronavirus/infographies-covid-19-malgre-le-couvre-feu-les-courbes-des-contaminations-ne-flechissent-plus-et-repartent-meme-a-la-hausse_4272579.html</ref>
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France even implemented a series of regional weekend lockdowns in cities like [[Nice]], [[Cannes]], and Dunkirk on the 24th of February [[2021]].<ref>https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/france-announces-weekend-lockdown-to-stem-virus/2156129</ref>
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=== Germany ===
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On 13 March 2020, the [[Robert Koch Institute]] started advising local full lockdowns, mandating school and kindergarten closures in several states, postponing academic semesters, and prohibiting visits to nursing homes to protect the elderly. Two days later, borders to [[Austria]], [[Denmark]], France, [[Luxembourg]] and [[Switzerland]] were closed. 22 March, curfews were in started 6 German states<ref>https://www.garda.com/crisis24/news-alerts/325576/germany-authorities-enact-further-measures-due-to-covid-19-march-22-update-13</ref>, later revealed to be helped by organizing a [[psyop]] against the german people.<ref>https://www.welt.de/politik/deutschland/article225864597/Interner-E-Mail-Verkehr-Innenministerium-spannte-Wissenschaftler-ein.html</ref>
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===Israel===
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[[File:Israel_lockdown-end_April_2021.png|right|thumb|550px|[http://archive.today/2021.04.28-203537/https://twitter.com/GalGur_/status/1387377770137858057 Message from Israel - 28 Apr 2021]]]
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Israel was the first country of the first world that decided to go into a second nationwide lockdown in September 2020.<ref>https://time.com/5889096/israel-second-lockdown-covid-19/</ref><ref>https://www.dw.com/en/israel-lockdown-coronavirus-benjamin-netanyahu/a-54974323</ref>
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=== Italy ===
 
In April 2020, [[Vittorio Colao]], a visitor to the [[Bilderberg 2018]], was put in charge of "phase 2" of the Italian response to [[COVID-19]].<ref>https://www.leadersleague.com/en/news/vittorio-colao-leads-italian-task-force-handling-phase-2</ref>
 
In April 2020, [[Vittorio Colao]], a visitor to the [[Bilderberg 2018]], was put in charge of "phase 2" of the Italian response to [[COVID-19]].<ref>https://www.leadersleague.com/en/news/vittorio-colao-leads-italian-task-force-handling-phase-2</ref>
  
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=== Kiribati ===
[[Sweden]] attracted criticism as a European holdout, resisting strong legal sanctions of other European nations, causing disquiet among (locked down) Danes.
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Despite only ever reporting two infections, [[Kiribati]] went into lockdown for the fist time in January 2022.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-60092463</ref>
  
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=== Netherlands ===
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The Dutch refused to order local lockdowns or masks early on and prohibited elderly homes from being tested causing hundreds of deaths among elderly, which caused those death rates to let the government gain a majority of public support for the lockdown.
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The court of The Hague ruled that the curfew should be lifted immediately on the 16th of February, citing the government of [[Mark Rutte]] "continuously talked about the implementation, which proved the urgent need to implement with a law likened to war-time measurements - especially without a parliamentary vote through both chambers - was deemed a constitutional violation of the Dutch people's privacy"<ref>https://www.euronews.com/2021/02/16/the-netherlands-must-lift-curfew-immediately-as-hague-ruling-says-government-response-ille</ref>. The decision was suspended ''45 minutes before the end of the curfew'' in an expedited appeal after the court denied the tense and seemingly nervous judge processing the appeal to be judicially disqualified.
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[[image:Armed police visiting premises that refuse to close in Liverpool in October 2020.jpg|left|333px|A team of [[UK police]] shut down a gym in Liverpool in October 2020]]
 
[[UK Police]] were been widely criticised (and repeatedly apologised) after zealous officer exceeded even the broad powers claimed by the Coronavirus Act, ordering people out of their front gardens etc.
 
[[UK Police]] were been widely criticised (and repeatedly apologised) after zealous officer exceeded even the broad powers claimed by the Coronavirus Act, ordering people out of their front gardens etc.
  
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The US was enforced, according to [[Donald Trump]], after two unnamed people cam into his office and told him that millions would die if he did not order a lockdown.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/want-names-president-trump-says-two-smart-people-came-office-urged-lock-economy-2-2-million-americans-die-video/</ref> On 26 March 2020, [[Cass Sunstein]] wrote in ''[[Bloomberg]]'' that "on the basis of current knowledge, extensive precautions, not ending soon, are amply justified by the most hard-headed forms of analysis that we have."<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-26/coronavirus-lockdowns-look-smart-under-cost-benefit-scrutiny</ref> The [[White House Coronavirus Task Force]] includes two [[Bilderbergers]].<ref>[[Christopher Liddell]] ([[Bilderberg 2017]]) and [[Matthew Pottinger]] ([[Bilderberg 2019]]).</ref>
 
The US was enforced, according to [[Donald Trump]], after two unnamed people cam into his office and told him that millions would die if he did not order a lockdown.<ref>https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/want-names-president-trump-says-two-smart-people-came-office-urged-lock-economy-2-2-million-americans-die-video/</ref> On 26 March 2020, [[Cass Sunstein]] wrote in ''[[Bloomberg]]'' that "on the basis of current knowledge, extensive precautions, not ending soon, are amply justified by the most hard-headed forms of analysis that we have."<ref>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-03-26/coronavirus-lockdowns-look-smart-under-cost-benefit-scrutiny</ref> The [[White House Coronavirus Task Force]] includes two [[Bilderbergers]].<ref>[[Christopher Liddell]] ([[Bilderberg 2017]]) and [[Matthew Pottinger]] ([[Bilderberg 2019]]).</ref>
  
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* March 2020 - The [[WHO]] declared [[COVID-19]] to be a [[COVID-19/Pandemic|pandemic]]
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* 11 March 2020 - The [[WHO]], following the words of its [[WHO/Director-General|director general]], practically declared [[COVID-19]] to be a [[COVID-19/Pandemic|pandemic]]
 
* 23 March 2020 - UK declares a lockdown<ref>https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/31/uk/uk-police-coronavirus-tactics-gbr-intl-scli/index.html</ref>
 
* 23 March 2020 - UK declares a lockdown<ref>https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/31/uk/uk-police-coronavirus-tactics-gbr-intl-scli/index.html</ref>
 
* 3 April 2020 - Over 3.9 billion people under some form of lockdown in over 90 nations<ref>https://www.euronews.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-in-europe-spain-s-death-toll-hits-10-000-after-record-950-new-deaths-in-24-hou</ref>
 
* 3 April 2020 - Over 3.9 billion people under some form of lockdown in over 90 nations<ref>https://www.euronews.com/2020/04/02/coronavirus-in-europe-spain-s-death-toll-hits-10-000-after-record-950-new-deaths-in-24-hou</ref>
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Event.png "National Security"
COVID-19/Lockdown (structural deep event,  social control,  social engineering,  financial fraud,  SDS/Policies)  Corbett ReportRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
COVID-19 Lockdown.jpg
DateMarch 2020 - Present
LocationWorld
PlannersSupranational deep state
PerpetratorsCOVID-19/Perpetrators
Exposed byAndrew Bogut, Alexander Lukashenko
Interest ofGladys Berejiklian, Sucharit Bhakdi, Deborah Birx, Roberto Burioni, Vernon Coleman, Piers Corbyn, Daily Sceptic, Ron DeSantis, Mark Drakeford, Neil Ferguson, Michael Gunner, Safura Abdool Karim, Franz Klein, Sharri Markson, Mariana Mazzucato, Mario Ohoven, Planet Lockdown, WEF/Global Future Council/Cities of Tomorrow, Wolfgang Wodarg, Mark Woolhouse
SubpageCOVID-19/Lockdown/UK
COVID-19/Lockdown/US
DescriptionNominally caused by a desire to save human life by slowing the spread of COVID-19, the near global campaign to institute lockdowns can also be interpreted as a global power grab by the supranational deep state.
A moment of candor from the CDC about the so-called "COVID lockdowns".

In early 2020, many nation states introduced unprecedented legal restrictions on freedom of movement, termed a "COVID lockdown", because it was nominally as a response to COVID-19. Officially only intended to last matter of weeks, in most nations they stretched into months, and were repeated. While they had unprecedented effects on society, as of early 2021, evidence that they impacted the spread of Covid-19 significantly is remarkably thin.

Indicating who thought out this strategy, the word "lockdown" stems from the US prison system, referring to the locking of all prisoners in their cells[1]

Apart from a brief attempt in Mexico in 2009[2], which quickly abandoned it, lockdowns have never been attempted as a disease-reducing strategy before[citation needed], which makes it remarkable that it was chosen as a strategy for all 8 billion people in the world, untried on a smaller scale.

The first lockdown was in China, after a declared COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan, when 100 million were locked in their homes. The tendency accelerated after the 11 March official declaration by the WHO of the COVID Pandemic and the vast majority of nation states followed his policy.

The presumption was that this would prevent health systems from being overloaded, an event which never happened on a national level. Whether such policies have actually had much impact on the spread of the virus is debatable.[3]

Over the Summer of 2020, as awareness grew that COVID-19's IFR was nowhere near the 3.4% initially announced by Dr. Tedros, lockdowns were relaxed either de jure or de facto and increasing attention was paid to other motives behind the global lockdown, such as social engineering. In Autumn 2020, COVID testing was massively increased, the number of cases detected also increased, sparking a second wave of lockdowns in Europe.

Official narrative

A WEF tweet which was quickly deleted after it raised criticism.
The headline graphic of the "mysteriously viral" The Hammer and the Dance, an argument for lockdown measures to "flatten the curve".

The logic of the lockdown was presented in Thomas Pueyo's "mysteriously viral"[4] The Hammer and the Dance. He summarised his 19 March 2020 piece that "Strong coronavirus measures today should only last a few weeks, there shouldn’t be a big peak of infections afterwards, and it can all be done for a reasonable cost to society, saving millions of lives along the way. If we don’t take these measures, tens of millions will be infected, many will die, along with anybody else that requires intensive care, because the healthcare system will have collapsed."[5]

On the third anniversary of the first lockdown, The Guardian still insists lockdowns were worth it.[6]

Concerns

Many nation states have been repeatedly renewing legal restrictions introduced as "temporary" measures. Moreover, comparison with nation-states (most notably Sweden) which have not had them shows little clear benefit as far as stemming Covid infection. By late April, as more tests were carried out, various studies were suggesting that the case fatality rate was much lower that the "3.4%" announced by the WHO Director general, perhaps an order of magnitude lower, or even more, and so has been eclipsed by the economic and social disruption due to the lockdown measures themselves. By early May most corporate media outlets have started to speculate on a coming second wave of the coronavirus in different countries.[7][8]

Anxiety

The website Just Facts, whose reporting is at times picked up by corporate media,[9] reported in May 2020: "anxiety created by reactions to Covid-19—such as stay-at-home orders, business shutdowns, media exaggerations, and legitimate concerns about the virus—will destroy at least seven times more years of human life than can possibly be saved by lockdowns to control the spread of the disease."[10]

Lock Step

Full article: Lock Step

Lock Step is one of four scenarios in a Rockefeller Foundation-funded paper, released in May 2010, with the bland title “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development [PDF],” and it includes a method to gain complete prison-like control of the entire population by infecting them with a biological pandemic.

In cooperation with the Global Business Network the simulation of futurologist Peter Schwartz, "a world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback" is described as Lock Step.[11]

"In order to protect themselves from the spread of increasingly global problems — from pandemics and transnational terrorism to environmental crises and rising poverty — leaders around the world took a firmer grip on power." [12] The firmer grip on power is reflected in the other scenarios as well, in a mix of soft power and hard power techniques.

A video on 153News.net: 'Operation Lockstep Rockefeller Plan for Martial Law 2010' (2m20s) (2020-06-02)

Consequences

Phoenix, AZ. May 6, 2021

The official narrative about the COVID lockdowns has changed over time. The initial claim was that they were needed to prevent a heavy loss of life by "flattening the curve" and preventing health systems from being overloaded by a huge spike in critically ill patients. This point contradicts the WHO's previous guidance in this area, but was adopted almost worldwide, with only a few countries resistsing. Several doctors have claimed that the "social distancing" is a conter-productive strategy that prolongs and deepens the risks to life.[13]

The extended lockdown with reduced sunlight exposure, exercise and social life, in combination with an increase in malnutrition especially in poor countries,[14] will have weakened the immune systems in many people globally, leading to additional illnesses of all kinds.

New Normal

This section requires expansion.

Quote by investigative journalist Patrick Henningsen:

“Anywhere you see the phrase, "the New Normal" – you should reject it. It's based on fraudulent premise that #COVID19 is somehow fundamentally much greater threat than other infectious diseases, when it's not. Anyone pushing this should be confronted and publicly admonished.”
 (19 May 2020)  [15]

A video interview (48:32) (2020-12-29) featuring Catherine Austin Fitts (for the Planet Lockdown documentary) clearly explains a greater global context of the ruling class' purpose for the entire plandemic lockdown and chaos scam, tying this "new normal" to their economic Great Reset for their tyrannical technocracy and transhumanist plans known as Agenda 21 / Agenda 2030. Most startling are the deliberate paths of destruction caused by the 2020 summer BLM / George Floyd riots to steal real estate within the Federal Reserve's "Opportunity Zones" established in 2018 (explained @ 28:38+).

Lockdown skepticism

This section requires expansion.

Social change

Clare Foges for The Times
COVID-1984 Fuck Bill Gates, May 11 2020, Munich, Germany

The testimony of Donald Trump that he was presented with threatening statistics in his office points to US Deep state involvement, while the coordinated nature of the Covid-19 lockdowns, and the dubious efficacy at achieving their stated aims, suggests that they were arranged by The Supranational Deep State. SDS involvement would suggest that the event is being exploited to promote their agenda of social control through imposition of a global control grid.

Many national governments introduced "temporary" legislation eponymously connected to the virus. In the UK, on 19 March 2020, the government announced that "COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease".[16] On 23 March the 329-page "The Coronavirus Bill" was introduced and by 25 March it had become law. Silkie Carlo called it "the greatest loss of liberty in our history".[17]

Suppression of lockdown protests

Three countries that did order a lockdown early on, that also had nation wide (political) protests going on, were Spain, France and Chile. It is likely that a lockdown regime is being introduced that will make large gatherings to protest against war, like in 2003 against the Iraq war, impossible.

Financial fraud

Full article: COVID-19/Economy

The small group with foreknowledge of the lockdown could predict that the economy would crash and so cash out, selling their holdings and using the futures market to profit from the event. In this sense, the event can be compared to the 2008 Market Crash. On 26 March 2020, some 3.3 million US citizens were out of work and seeking financial help from the government,[18] a number that had doubled by 2 April.[19]

Food shortages

Since the general restrictions are in place, the free movement of seasonal workers for the harvest is impossible. It has been reported that this is threatening the fruit and vegetable output in Europe,[20] the United States[21] and Australia[22] for 2020 season. The German government, after being pressured to rethink its position,[23] lifted the restrictions for seasonal workers partially. The crisis coincides with the beginning of a period of reduced sun activity that may last several decades.[24] Reports about approaching shortages did continues throughout the year 2020,[25][26] and intensified in 2021.[27][28]

A 2015 simulation by the Big Agriculture corporation Cargill predicted up to 400 % increase in food prices by 2030; it discussed an upcoming carbon and meat tax.[29][30]

In Great Britain, food shortages are being blamed on Brexit.

Urbanisation

Full article: Urban depopulation

People are leaving cities to escape restrictions.

Perpetrators

The COVID-19 lockdown is a massive curtailment of long established values such as freedom of movement and the overriding of the economic imperative. The only group capable of organising such an event is the supranational deep state.

Opponents

British MP Esther McVey's Instagram story, showing her anti-lockdown article for the Sunday Express on Sunday 5th September 2021.

Most politicians generally have supported lockdowns, but there have been a few opponents.

South Dakota was the only US state not to lock down. Governor Kristi Noem was attacked by the CCM for her actions.

Lockdown refusal nations

Some nation-states refused to severely curtail freedom of movement in response to the virus.

Belarus

Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka refused to lockdown the country and said countries enforcing tough measures have fallen victim to "frenzy and psychosis".[31]

Burundi

Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza refused to lockdown the country and expelled WHO officials. He suddenly died on 8 June 2020, officially of a "heart attack", aged 55.

Sweden

Sweden attracted criticism as a European holdout, resisting strong legal sanctions of other European nations, causing disquiet among (locked down) Danes. It was widely criticized by the commercially-controlled media for this until around August, by which point the first wave was effectively over in Sweden. The Sweden Democrats supported the actions of the Social Democrat government.[32] The government suffered a crisis in June 2021.

Tanzania

The President of Tanzania, John Magufuli, a close friend of Pierre Nkurunziza, also refused to instigate a lockdown, dies of "heart failure" in March 2021.

Lockdown nations

Austria

In November 2021 Austria declared a "lockdown for the unvaccinated",[33] which a week later became a lockdown for all citizens and a nationwide mandate of "COVID vaccines".

Australia

Full article: Australia/National COVID-19 Coordination Commission‎

The Australia/National COVID-19 Coordination Commission‎, set up in March 2020[citation needed] included Jane Halton who took part in Event 201.

The harsh lockdown that has been put in place in the country from August 2020 on, which complicates travel, as a result prevents farmers from being able to tend to their lifestock[34] and people from getting necessary medical care. Nine News Australia reported on October 20, 2020 that four newborns died because they were prevented to from getting life saving heart surgery.[35][36]

Brazil

Luiz Henrique Mandetta was sacked in April 2020 after publicly opposing the Lockdown policies in force in Brazil.[37]

France

The French curfew started in October of 2020 was reported by the government itself to "have no effect whatsoever" on the 27th of January 2021. The French had extended the curfew 4 months later to a 6PM to 6AM curfew. Prime Minister Cantex (who silenced[38] doctors by law one month earlier) was believed by TV-sources to have publicly critiqued the curfew to avoid "Dutch situations" referencing the massive Dutch riots in the last weeks of January following their first curfew.[39] Cantex failed to mention the French had been rioting for weeks on three separate occasions already (with at least one death confirmed after an assault in public transport)[40], seemingly paving the way for a longer strategy of tension as Emmanuel Macron was reported to even enact a more severe lockdown.[41]

France even implemented a series of regional weekend lockdowns in cities like Nice, Cannes, and Dunkirk on the 24th of February 2021.[42]

Germany

On 13 March 2020, the Robert Koch Institute started advising local full lockdowns, mandating school and kindergarten closures in several states, postponing academic semesters, and prohibiting visits to nursing homes to protect the elderly. Two days later, borders to Austria, Denmark, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland were closed. 22 March, curfews were in started 6 German states[43], later revealed to be helped by organizing a psyop against the german people.[44]

Israel

Israel was the first country of the first world that decided to go into a second nationwide lockdown in September 2020.[45][46]

Italy

In April 2020, Vittorio Colao, a visitor to the Bilderberg 2018, was put in charge of "phase 2" of the Italian response to COVID-19.[47]

Kiribati

Despite only ever reporting two infections, Kiribati went into lockdown for the fist time in January 2022.[48]

Netherlands

The Dutch refused to order local lockdowns or masks early on and prohibited elderly homes from being tested causing hundreds of deaths among elderly, which caused those death rates to let the government gain a majority of public support for the lockdown. The court of The Hague ruled that the curfew should be lifted immediately on the 16th of February, citing the government of Mark Rutte "continuously talked about the implementation, which proved the urgent need to implement with a law likened to war-time measurements - especially without a parliamentary vote through both chambers - was deemed a constitutional violation of the Dutch people's privacy"[49]. The decision was suspended 45 minutes before the end of the curfew in an expedited appeal after the court denied the tense and seemingly nervous judge processing the appeal to be judicially disqualified.

UK

Full article: COVID-19/Lockdown/UK
A team of UK police shut down a gym in Liverpool in October 2020

UK Police were been widely criticised (and repeatedly apologised) after zealous officer exceeded even the broad powers claimed by the Coronavirus Act, ordering people out of their front gardens etc.

US

Full article: COVID-19/Lockdown/US

The US was enforced, according to Donald Trump, after two unnamed people cam into his office and told him that millions would die if he did not order a lockdown.[50] On 26 March 2020, Cass Sunstein wrote in Bloomberg that "on the basis of current knowledge, extensive precautions, not ending soon, are amply justified by the most hard-headed forms of analysis that we have."[51] The White House Coronavirus Task Force includes two Bilderbergers.[52]

Timeline

Full article: COVID-19/Timeline
  • 11 March 2020 - The WHO, following the words of its director general, practically declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic
  • 23 March 2020 - UK declares a lockdown[53]
  • 3 April 2020 - Over 3.9 billion people under some form of lockdown in over 90 nations[54]


 

Examples

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COVID-19/Lockdown/UKThe UK police, afforded extensive new powers by the 329 page "Coronavirus bill" faced wide-ranging criticism in April 2020 for overstepping them. The first prosecution under the legislation they attempted was ruled unlawful.
COVID-19/Lockdown/US

 

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"COVID-19/Response"“We don’t want to have a lot of recovered people... To be clear, we’re trying – through the shut-down in the United States – to not get to one percent of the population infected. We’re well below that today, but with exponentiation, you could get past that three million [people or approximately one percent of the U.S. population being infected with COVID-19 and the vast majority recovering]. Eventually what we’ll have to have is certificates of who’s a recovered person, who’s a vaccinated person... Because you don’t want people moving around the world where you’ll have some countries that won’t have it under control, sadly. You don’t want to completely block off the ability for people to go there and come back and move around. So eventually there will be this digital immunity proof that will help facilitate the global reopening up.”24 March 2020
2020s“I once asked the question: is this pandemic, this coronavirus, a man-made phenomenon? I don’t know the answer yet, but I have my suspicions. Are politicians and others using this situation for their own purposes? You and I both know the answer to that question. You already see how it is used today... Doesn’t it seem to you that the influential forces of the world would like to remake the world, without a ‘war’ (Emmanuel Macron has already called it a war), through this so-called ‘corona-psychosis’, or ‘info-demic’? Many people are asking: ‘what will happen after the pandemic?’”Alexander Lukashenko3 April 2020
Article 19“Freedom of expression is the fundamental human right that enables us all to demand the highest attainable standard of health. Unlike any other year in recent history, 2020 has driven home just how vital access to accurate, reliable and timely information is, and continues to be, during a global health crisis.

When faced with such crises, governments have a fundamental duty to be transparent about their decisions, and a legal obligation to protect people’s lives. This means ensuring that health-care professionals have access to accurate global information about the disease, educating the public about the pandemic, and ensuring that health data is accessible to everyone – no exceptions. The Global Expression Report for 2021 reveals that rather than focusing on controlling the virus, protecting public health and improving access to information, governments have used the pandemic as an excuse to:

   Suppress critical information
   Implement states of emergency without proper limits 
   Place unreasonable and unnecessary restrictions on the media 

And by presenting a false choice between human rights and public health, governments have used a cunning tactic to shut down public discussion and any scrutiny of their decisions. In other words, they have wasted public money and valuable time using the pandemic to entrench their power.

As a result, these actions have prolonged the pandemic and cost lives.”
Article 19
Andrew Bogut“Whoever you are, why don’t we hear you speaking up? The silence is deafening. Let me give you the reason why: Last year, about three or four months into this pandemic, I got a message from somebody. I’m not going to name who it was or where it came from. I got offered money to put out a public service announcement for you everyday plebs to stay home.”Andrew Bogut
COVID-19/Panic“[T]here is a process, being fed by mainstream media accounts and genuine panic in populations unclear what the real dangers are, that has alarming implications for the post-pandemic future.... A relevant question is whether certain bad actors, and there are some in this world, are opportunistically using the widespread fears around the COVID-19 to advance an agenda of “lock step” top down social control, one that would include stark limits on travel, perhaps replacing of cash by “sanitary” electronic cash, mandatory vaccination even though the long term side effects are not proven safe, unlimited surveillance and the curtailing of personal freedoms such as political protests on the excuse it will allow “identification of people who refuse to be tested or vaccinated,” and countless other restrictions. Much of the Rockefeller 2010 scenario is already evident. Fear is never a good guide to sound reason.”William Engdahl10 March 2020
Dave Cullen“[...] whether it is Covid lockdowns, or raising the price of electricity and fuel, or restrictions on energy usage, such as mandatory rationing, or even powercuts - the result is always the same. Winding down the economy, destroying small to medium businesses, forcing more people to stay at home, reducing human movement and making people dependent on the government for their most basic needs. [...] The plan appears to be, do drag on the Ukraine war for as long as possible, so as to create an excuse to accelerate the transition to completely insufficient power sources such as wind, wave and solar energy, during this process energy rationing will become the norm, [...]”Dave Cullen13 September 2022
Deep state“What can now be called “Covid Deep State” – the same “superior and super-rich elite” buys practically all the corporate mediatelevision, radio and print – in basically all the 193 UN member countries. Looks like there is no escape. That’s what they would like. That’s why the entire world had to be locked down for the virus at once on or around the 15th of March 2020.”Peter Koenig4 June 2021
Scott Galloway“I wanted a harsher lockdown policy. In retrospect: I was wrong… But here’s the bottom line: We were doing our best. Let’s give a little grace and forgiveness.”Scott GallowayOctober 2023
Tedros Ghebreyesus“Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not by exposing them to it. Never in the history of public health has herd immunity been used as a strategy for responding to an outbreak, let alone a pandemic.”Tedros GhebreyesusOctober 2020
Lena Hallengren“It’s not a fact that if you just close whatever you can, you get rid of the virusLena Hallengren18 December 2020
Patrick Henningsen“Anywhere you see the phrase, "the New Normal" – you should reject it. It's based on fraudulent premise that #COVID19 is somehow fundamentally much greater threat than other infectious diseases, when it's not. Anyone pushing this should be confronted and publicly admonished.”Patrick Henningsen19 May 2020
ID2020“We don’t want to have a lot of recovered people... To be clear, we’re trying – through the shut-down in the United States – to not get to one percent of the population infected. We’re well below that today, but with exponentiation, you could get past that three million [people or approximately one percent of the U.S. population being infected with COVID-19 and the vast majority recovering]. Eventually what we’ll have to have is certificates of who’s a recovered person, who’s a vaccinated person... Because you don’t want people moving around the world where you’ll have some countries that won’t have it under control, sadly. You don’t want to completely block off the ability for people to go there and come back and move around. So eventually there will be this digital immunity proof that will help facilitate the global reopening up.”Bill Gates24 March 2020
Francine Lewis“I still worry for my parents but I certainly won’t be giving my children the vaccine, people are not going to take this seriously even if they do give us another lockdownFrancine Lewis10 December 2021
John Magufuli“Everybody in the Covid trenches felt the shock death to be connected to Magufuli’s provocation to the global Covid industrial complex last May, when he covertly had non-human samples — from fruits, goats, sheep, and car oil — tested for Covid on the PCR test, returning positive results from a paw-paw, a quail, and a goat. With humor, cheek, and audacity, Magufuli had crossed a line—exposing the fraud and illegitimacy of the PCR testing apparatus that the WHO relied on to justify the global lockdown, the terror, and the vaccine rollouts. After the disturbing results came in, Magufuli suspended the head of Tanzania’s National Health Laboratory, Nyambura Moremi, and formed a 10-person investigative committee. The EU had given Tanzania 27 million Euros to impose strict Covid lockdown measures, but along with the Presidents of Belarus and Burundi, Magufuli kicked the WHO out of his country.”John Magufuli
Celia Faber
19 March 2021
Kees van der Pijl“Across the West, indeed the world, the sort of emergency powers granted to the executive in the United States are being replicated, covered also by increasingly provocative military manoeuvres on the Russian border—partly disrupted by the Covid-19 outbreak. Even though levels of infection are not different in countries with far lighter or even no restrictions, the mainstream reading of events is that we need the state of exception because of the virus. Yet mass surveillance, invasive policing, tracking people’s movements via their mobile phones, by drones flying over public spaces filming passers-by, and other steps, are completely out of proportion to the actual impact of the virus. The discrepancy can only be explained by the hidden agenda of suppressing social unrest.”Kees van der Pijl27 April 2020
Erna Solberg“It was not an attempt at a coup, it was an attempt to make people's everyday lives work.”Erna SolbergMarch 2021

 

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