Copycat Governments: How the World Locked Down

By Jeffrey A. Tucker September 23, 2021 History, Policy, Public Health

Copycat Governments: How the World Locked Down

A continuing mystery is how it is that so many governments in so many different places on earth could have adopted the same or very similar preposterous policies, no matter the threat level of the virus, and without firm evidence that interventions had any hope of being effective.

In the course of two weeks in the second half of March 2020, traditional freedoms were zapped away in nearly all developed countries. In a seriously bizarre twist, even the silliest policies replicated themselves like a virus in country after country. Nothing like this has ever happened in response to a new virus.

For example, you could not try on clothing in a store in Texas or in Melbourne, or in London or in Kalamazoo. Why was that? We’ve always known that the COVID bug is least likely to live on fabrics unless I have symptoms of it, sneeze on my handkerchief and then I stuff it in your mouth. The whole thing is a ridiculous mysophobic overreach, like most of the rules under which we’ve lived for 20 months.

Then there was the inside/outside confusion.

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Thaisleeze
Thaisleeze
September 25, 2021 10:46 am

Makes a lot of sense. After all, what is required to be a politician? Mastery of bullshit.

Yahsure
Yahsure
September 25, 2021 11:05 am

I thought it was all a bunch of stupid BS right from the start. it’s about controlling people. Just wait till we have a FED digital money and hundreds of satellites orbiting the earth and A.I. is brought online going into the future. we will see some real controlling going on then. Just look at the Chinese for an example of what’s coming, only worse.

Trapped in Portlandia
Trapped in Portlandia
September 25, 2021 1:02 pm

Since people in government never have an original idea of their own, accepting the idea that their stupidity and need to avoid risk by following others led to their “solutions” is pretty easy to accept.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
September 25, 2021 1:11 pm

He concludes with a bone thrown to ignorance and fear, yet the truth is that the critical countries (China, US, France, Germany, UK, etc. that control most of the world), are all controlled above the government level, by the same people who ordered the creation of the virus and ordered its release. THEY ordered the lockdowns in China (while allowing the Chinese to slaughter all of their political opposition under the cover of the lockdown – as a bonus for being so cooperative), and the rest of the countries did it because you can’t “build back better” if you don’t actively DESTROY it all first. No ignorance….just plain criminality. Crimes against humanity is the term that should always be used.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  MrLiberty
September 25, 2021 2:14 pm

Ignorance and CYA by politicians is easy enough to accept as a partial explanation; but the author is forgetting that ALL of the politicians followed the advice of high level government functionaries with an M.D. after their name.

The “doctors” who committed this crime all knew better. The crime is not one of ignorance, negligence, or recklessness; it is one of intent and pre-meditation.

None of the restrictive measures recommended had any hope of stopping the spread. They could only potentially slow the spread. Slowing the spread would only be useful for one of two reasons: 1) to limit overburdening the hospitals; or, 2) to provide time to isolate and protect vulnerable sub-populations.

Very few hospitals were ever actually, factually, overburdened, despite constant media narrative to the contrary. Emergency field hospitals and hospital ships went unused, no refrigerated trucks were needed to haul the dead, and furloughs of hospital staff and numerous tiktok videos of dancing nurses put the lie to”overburdening” propaganda.
As for the second — protecting the vulnerable — we know how well that played out in New York. It was little different in the rest of the country because, to do it right, you’d need the kind of protections and precautions of a high level bio-lab. That never happened. What did happen was essentially almost random, haphazard punishment for the crime of being old.

The “doctors” recommending all of these life, liberty, and livelihood destroying measures were NOT unaware of how stupid and ineffective they would be. Additionally, slowing (rather than stopping) the spread only prolongs the pandemic … and thus prolongs the proclaimed “need” of the restrictive measures. And, last but certainly not least, the folly and danger of undertaking the most aggressive ‘vaccination’ program in the midst of a pandemic, was also not something the “doctors” were ignorant of.

Amazingly (or not) this was spurred by a select group of psychopaths whose aim was position, reputation, status, recognition, influence, power, control, and, yes, money (whether direct corruption, potential future lucrative opportunities, or merely increased budgets [see position, power, influence, etc]).

This, in turn, was often fed by wealthy individuals, foundations, and others with their own agendas simply using said status-mad “doctors” as tools.

Many of the individuals’ names are known; but let’s not forget certain institutions with an academic facade (JHU). All, of course, under cover of the ruse of altruism.

The crime goes on.

Junious Ricardo Stanton
Junious Ricardo Stanton
September 25, 2021 1:27 pm

Is this article an attempt to truly understand global insanity and blame it on Monkey See Monkey Do? The problem with this line of thinking is those government leaders and “public health officials” did it simultaneously, not one after the other but at the same time as if on cue and by agreement! Why did the corporate media of these countries demonize Sweden for not going along and is it a coincidence that several African leaders who refused to go for the okey-doke died? Why don’t the same media and monopoly digital platforms report on or discuss Sweden, Denmark, Belarus and India’s responses to the crisis which were decidedly different from the OECD nations? We have to be open minded and entertain all possibilities even “conspiracy theories”.

Mygirl....maybe
Mygirl....maybe
  Sensop
September 25, 2021 7:29 pm

He utterly and completely ignores the fact that this was all PLANNED from the get-go, it was a global plan and executed by politicians, and billionaires and corporate heads, heads of institutions and similar organizations, in unison. The end game is total world domination by a handful of ‘elites’ who have the money and the power to reach their goal of global communism. We are way past the planning stage and far into the implementation of the plan stage. Watch Australia for how and where this goes.

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 25, 2021 2:10 pm

hm, lemme see, what do all these governments have in common?
could it have something to do with bankers maybe?
more remarkable then is looking at the few exceptions and how they managed to escape it.

Hate Bear
Hate Bear
  Anonymous
September 25, 2021 9:32 pm

>the bankers
DING DING DING it’s the assholes with the illegal slavery finance schemes. This is politics 101 and trumps all gay party shit. Of course, these assholes determine who can get elected by financing whomever they like and paying other bribes to force out anyone they don’t.

It’s all fucking bribes from this damn bank apparatus, pure and simple.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
September 25, 2021 3:43 pm

This short video seem to me to be worth its own post.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
  Iska Waran
September 25, 2021 9:45 pm

Seems like I read about something similar in a book written by a man name John who lived in the 1st century AD

KaD
KaD
September 25, 2021 4:59 pm
MrLiberty
MrLiberty
  KaD
September 25, 2021 9:54 pm

Of course they were enjoying themselves. People who become police officers revel in being able to violate the rights of others with impunity, tell other people what to do, and beat the hell out of them when they say no. They say that shit floats to the top of the economic cellpool, and the same is true of those in society looking to wear a badge and push people around.

Anonymous
Anonymous
September 25, 2021 5:25 pm

Just like they are all onboard with the idiotic Global Warming farce. The entire world would be better off without the Useless Nations and the World Health Organization AKA The World Hostage Organization where they follow the $cience $$$.

piearesquared
piearesquared
September 25, 2021 7:36 pm

The author of this post is an idiot. The countries all did the same thing because they are all run by the NWO, which told them what to do. This scamdemic has been planned for a long time. The various countries were prepared (unknowingly to most of the politicians in those countries) go react exactly as they did react when the fake “virus” appeared. And that preparation was so thorough that it included selecting Trump to be president in 2016.

Hate Bear
Hate Bear
  piearesquared
September 25, 2021 9:34 pm

They are either not completely informed, which would explain why they still have a payjew that isn’t yet (((shut down))), or they’re a limited hangout that’s straight-up controlled op like jonestein. Legitimate opposition is not allowed to exist because every normal person lives under totalitarianism 100%.

I say to do what you would usually do and just spread truth as aggressively as possible as long as possible. It worked wonders on jonestein. And if anyone is legit, they will become one of us, and if not, they take the mask off and fight us. It ALWAYS works.

Hate Bear
Hate Bear
September 25, 2021 9:30 pm

Governments are full of paid shill faggots and controlled opposition and are the enemies of the public, in general. It’s the unavoidable, obvious conclusion. Any gay little power group pushing money around to buy opunions can and should be automatically suspect and ideally a global Fourth Reich would be started and we would round all these bitches up. They may not all be convicted, but it would be a long ass line to the firing squads out back. Glowniggers belong in the front of the line.

TN Patriot
TN Patriot
September 25, 2021 9:39 pm

They gamed it all out in Event 201 a couple of months before. I’m sure the playbook was widely distributed along with orders to follow it.

piearesquared
piearesquared
  TN Patriot
September 25, 2021 10:04 pm

They gamed it all out long before Event 201. Event 201 was basically a dress rehersal.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  piearesquared
September 26, 2021 10:44 am

Good point. Even Gates is a relative newcomer (though now the prime mover). The early concept has the name “Rockefeller” stamped all over it (literally, in some cases).