TYRANNY HAPPENS LIKE BANKRUPTCY: GRADUALLY AND THEN SUDDENLY

How far we have fallen

What defines The Covidian Age is not the virus itself but rather government sanctioned, socially-driven cruelty — and the dividing of citizens into acceptable and unacceptable groups based entirely on whether they pledge blind obedience to public health edicts.

It didn’t take long at all to go from ratting out a neighbour’s over-crowded Thanksgiving dinner to let the unvaccinated die. All of it cheered on by medical apparatchiks, uniformed police officers, legacy media and cowardly politicians who hid behind them all and watched while the sacred bonds of community were shredded, perhaps permanently.

How quickly it all fell, pitting us against each other in a fear-driven, viral-Zombie version of The Hunger Games, one with no winners except Big Pharma, the fly-private crowd and their laptop class wanna-bees.

I felt a chill from the newly empowered early on and often wondered on the podcast if we were on the well-trodden path to some form of tyranny. Smart people I knew were making analogies to Germany in the years before the Holocaust, always careful to say we shouldn’t really compare the two but that it felt the same.

In my building one day, a neighbour approached and demanded we help her chase an unmasked and clearly overworked delivery-man down the hall. My response was instantaneous and so rude I was somewhat embarrassed by it — I shouted we don’t do that here! I’m not even sure what here I was referring to but I did feel the weight of historical ugliness in the lobby that day. But my neighbour thought she was being public spirited by following what our public health authorities had asked us to do. Turn in the rule-breakers. For the greater good.

In Racial Hygiene; Medicine Under the Nazis, Robert Proctor makes a powerful case that without the country’s academics, doctors, scientists and public health officials exerting collective power early on there might not have been a Final Solution later. In the introduction he writes about the politicization of science:

The broader thesis guiding this book is that movements that shape the policies of nations can also shape the structure and policies of science. The history of medicine under national socialism presents a clear and indeed dramatic case but it may not be as extraordinary as people sometimes think. Politics enters science in ways we are only beginning to understand.

Jewish essayist and novelist Ann Bauer told me the collective snitching and judgement reminded her to question which of her friends would, metaphorically, hide her in the attic.

And recently I received an email from a listener, also Jewish who feels strongly that history’s echoes should be heeded. We must be clear-eyed and resolute when we study the holocaust but we must be just as committed to examining the incremental moral lapses that opened the gates of hell. Our listener cheered our program with medical autonomy activist and holocaust survivor Vera Sharav but lamented a lack of granularity. Here is part of his email.

As a Jew, I have been dumbfounded, disappointed and angry that my fellow Jews have failed to realize the parallels with early Nazi Germany. The othering, medical tyranny and anger directed towards a minority group based solely on propaganda contrived by our government, the media and our medical community was so obviously similar to the early 1930s I can't understand how people close to me don't see it. 

I attended Jewish summer camp in Nova Scotia, beginning when I was 10 years old. We were taught about the Holocaust and to "never forget" from an early age. I went on the March of the Living and Birthright Israel and feel very connected to my Jewish heritage. It was partly due to these experiences that, in December 2021, I reached out to a close friend who used to run the Birthright Israel program and was intimately involved in the March of the Living. I knew he was well-connected within Bnai Brith Canada as well and, I believed, that organization may want to stand up for the human rights of individuals (the unvaccinated) that were being othered, ostracized from society and subjected to hate speech, not only by the citizenry at large but our own Prime Minister and "trusted media". 

My argument proved unpersuasive. He couldn't recognize the parallels and thought I was being a sensationalist. This same close friend also happens to be the co-chairman of the summer camp I attended for 10 years and my father attended before me. All of my best friendships were born at that camp and remain to this day. The camp is deeply intertwined with my personal and Jewish identity. Despite in-person lobbying, several thoughtful evidence-based emails and the absence of gov't imposed mandates, he chose to ban unvaccinated children from the camp. This included my 10 year-old unvaccinated daughter.

I recognize that others have suffered much more than I have these last 2.5 years. People have lost their jobs, been unable to travel and to visit loved ones in the hospital. But for me, this was a crushing loss, severing a 40 year relationship with the camp and feeling powerless to stop something I saw coming for months.

I continue to lob emails into the camp committee when new research or developments occur which vindicate my views (6 emails and counting). Which brings me back to Vera Sharav. While the podcast was extremely good at highlighting the larger issues of Covid tyranny and how they relate to her experiences, what I was hoping for was a more detailed, step by step account beginning with the earliest infringements on human rights in the 1930s to demonstrate that we're not talking about the 'final solution' but the events that led to it. I was looking for a 'gotcha' podcast to send to all of my Jewish friends and I don't think that was achieved. 

My new friend’s criticism of the podcast is correct. Many of the details outlined in Robert Proctor’s book, although discussed in my commentary, were not part of the interview. I felt that, as a holocaust survivor it was Vera’s stage and so I let her talk about what was important to her, in part because it was clear she was struggling with the historical reality of the Covidian Epoch. We will revisit this comparison soon and perhaps invite our listener on to talk about his experience.

Meanwhile — this exchange from Ernest Hemingway’s The Son Also Rises works well if we exchange the word bankruptcy for the idea of tyranny.

How did you go bankrupt? Bill asked.

Two ways. Mike said. Gradually and then suddenly.

One minute you are having an argument with your neighbour and the next …..

Stay Critical….