The coronavirus pandemic gave some government officials a great deal of authority. They don’t intend to abandon it.
Americans saw in early 2020 as the biological security state—the unelected technocrats who suddenly had almost full ability to imprison, isolate, and medicate the whole population—imposed hitherto unimaginable social restraints. A dissident scientist exposes the biomedical security state’s members, organizations, and roles in shaping the government’s response to the pandemic in his terrifying new book, The New Abnormal. He also explains why it poses a threat to science, public health, and individual freedom and what can be done to confront and defeat this new Leviathan.
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty’s work placed him in the front lines when covid-19 first emerged. He started to complain that the solution was worse than the disease—an unbearable heresy—after realizing the terrible mental, physical, and financial costs of lockdowns. The University of California, Irvine, medical school sacked him when he objected to the vaccination because he had built-up protection from an earlier infection of the disease. He resisted, both in the courts and in the media, and as a result of the state censorship and obfuscation, he has emerged as a relied upon source of the truth.
It’s now up to us all to respond by fighting back. The biomedical security state’s lethal and haughty misgovernance cannot become the “new normal.”
The tyrannical features of the Biomedical Security State:
1. The militarization of public health, leading to the melding of public health with the police powers of the state, facilitated by digital technologies of surveillance and control.
2. Dictating that various problems—social, environmental, economic—be reframed as public health issues, and eventually health emergencies. Governance entails jumping from one crisis to the next, each time invoking the need for extra-legislative or extra-judicial executive powers.
3. Assumes the legal form of the state of exception triggered by this ongoing series of crises, where hypothetical risks according to “worse case” logic are used to justify extreme responses requiring systematic control of the entire body of citizens. The protection of public health overrules any individual or privacy rights and health is imposed on citizens as a legal obligation.
4. Takes the political form of corporatism, i.e., fascism according to the term’s original meaning.
5. Drives industry toward systems of algorithmically controlled automation where humans become superfluous. The human person is reduced to bare biological life—a mere collection of muscles, tendons, ligaments, and bones—with regrettable energy and excretion requirements.
6. Regards all rationality as purely instrumental, thus destroying the possibility of shared universal truths. Philosophically, its epistemology is scientism; its metaphysics is materialism; and its ethics is the direction of history as discerned by an elite clerisy.
7. Takes the religious form of Neo-Gnosticism, which seeks to overcome all embodied, material limitations. The system is administered by an elite class of unelected but credentialed bureaucrats and managers who move in the virtual world of screens and software while controlling the bodies of those moving in the real world of physical labor.
8. Pushes depersonalization and alienation to the extreme, constituting a dehumanizing regime that inevitably moves toward totalitarianism.
The New Abnormal is a terrifying book because the infrastructure for it is already in place. Anyone concerned about the future of mankind should read.
