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FTR#1413 This program was recorded in one, 60-minute segment.
Introduction: This program features the fourth and fifth of Mr. Emory’s articles on the Covid-19 “Op,” previously behind his Patreon paywall.
The question naturally suggests itself as to just how the virus may have been spread.
A number of vectoring scenarios are suggested in the reading and article.
In addition, the stunning eugenic effects of the pandemic must be recognized. In effect, the virus realized a global institutionalization of eugenics.
Discussion and Analysis Includes: The Shincheonji cult and the suit filed against it by the late Park Won-Soon; Shincheonji’s branch in Wuhan, China; Doctrinal and operational overlap between the Shincheonji cult and the Unification Church of Reverend Moon; Review of the Unification Church’s work as an extension of the U.S. national security establishment; The Military World Games in Wuhan and the apparent infection of athletes who participated in those games; The possibility that some of those athletes may have been vectored before going to Wuhan; The strong probability that athletes who participated in the games may have been vectors for spreading the virus in the U.S.; The strong possibility that the New York subway system may have been deliberately vectored in order to spread the virus; The strong probability that the cleaning of the New York subway may have greatly slowed the spread of the virus in New York City; Review of the profound role of eugenics thinking in the West and in the development of the Nazi extermination laws; The pandemic’s elimination of many older people who collected Social Security and Medicare; The pandemic’s dramatic extermination of veterans, people in nursing homes and people in the developing world; The deliberately high-pricing of vaccines available to people in the developing world; The deliberately racist portrayal of Covid sufferers in the developing world; The bi-partisan eugenics outlook of both the Biden and Trump administrations.
1.Those who wonder about how the virus may have been spread should examine the fourth of Mr. Emory’s articles about the Covid-19 “Op.”
Vectoring Scenarios
The possible vectors used to infect populations with Covid are, obviously, speculative past a point.
One of the most intriguing concerns a South Korean mind-control cult that was the focal point of a lawsuit by the late Park Won-soon, the muckraking mayor of Seoul.
Park sued the Shincheonji cult, charging that it had brought the virus to Seoul and, possibly, other areas as well.
“ . . . . The mayor of Seoul has sued key leaders of the Shincheonji religious group at the center of South Korea’s sudden surge in the number of confirmed cases for the new coronavirus. Mayor Park Won-soon said on Facebook he was suing the key leaders of Shincheonji ‘for murder, injury and violation of prevention and management of infectious diseases,’ according to a translation from NBC News. Park reported 12 leaders to the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office on Sunday. . . .” (1)
Early in the pandemic, South Korea had the largest number of cases of Covid outside of China and the incidence of infection had risen exponentially from 30 cases to 4,212 in two weeks. (2)
“ . . . . Contributing to the exponential rise in cases was the city of Daegu, and specifically, the secretive religious group called Shincheonji, according to the country’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As of Sunday morning, the group accounted for almost 60% of all cases in the country, with most of them centered in Daegu. . . .” (3)
An intriguing detail concerning Shincheonji concerns the cult’s opening of a subsidiary in Wuhan, China and the group’s scrubbing of information about that branch from its website.
“. . . . Jung Eun-kyeong, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said the authorities were investigating reports that Shincheonji had operations in Hubei, the Chinese province that includes Wuhan, where the virus emerged. The South Korean news agency Newsis reported on Friday that Shincheonji had opened a church in Wuhan last year, and that references to it had been removed from the church’s website. . . .” (4)
Park charged that Shincheonji purposely evaded safety protocols with regard to the spread of the virus.
“ . . . . The mayor accused Lee and others of evading tests for the virus and for failing to take adequate measures to get members of the group to work with health authorities in preventing transmission of the infection. Park also alleged that the Shincheonji provided false information that obstructed the work of the health authorities. . . .” (5)
As will be seen in the next section of our article, the Shincheonji cult had doctrinal and operational overlap with the Unification Church of Reverend Moon, a major vehicle of South Korean, American and Japanese national security operations.
The possibility that Shincheonji may have been a vectoring mechanism for introducing the virus into both South Korea and Wuhan is a consideration that must be seriously considered.
The Unification Church, the CIA and International Fascism
We will not belabor the Moon organization’s extensive history of involvement with Korean, Japanese and U.S. national security activities, nor its profound links to international fascism.
Suffice it to say that the Moonies’ central involvement in the CIA’s cocaine coup in Bolivia and its operational links to Lyon Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie are illustrative of the organization’s nature and reach.
“ . . . . It was not until 1983 that the Bolivian Ministry of the Interior and Bolivian journalists determined that the gentlemen from the Moon sect—as well as others—had invested about $4 million into the preparation for the coup. Membership lists of the political Moon organization ‘Causa’ were found. At the top of the lists were the names of almost all the leading military personnel who, at the same time, had been honoring the swastika in Barbie’s lodge. Even junta leader Garcia had been converted to the ‘Moonies’ for a time. . . . The leader of the Moon group in Bolivia was Thomas (Tom) Ward. . . . Tom Ward was also the man who delivered a payment from the CIA in early 1981 to the Argentinian intelligence Lieutenant Alfredo Mingolla. The $1,500.00 monthly salary for Mingolla was paid in the Causa office belonging to William Selig, Ward’s representative. . . . The third man in the CIA cadre of the Moonies was Paul Perry . . . .” (6)
Shincheonji and the Unification Church
Of paramount importance in this discussion is the significant overlap between Shincheonji and the Unification Church. In light of the Unification Church’s profound influence on the international power political landscape and its use as an intelligence vehicle by the U.S., Japan and South Korea, the possibility of Shincheonji serving in a national security context is intriguing and important.
Was Shincheonji used to vector South Korea and, perhaps Wuhan, China as well?
In addition to networking between elements of both organizations, the Shincheonji Church has many doctrinal similarities to the Moon organization.
Shincheonji “messiah” Lee Man-Hee bought land immediately adjacent to Moon’s palace.” . . . . On November 15, 2012, Lee and his wife, Kim Nam-hee, bought land from Hyundai-Kia, Hyundai, Gyeonggi-do, Gyeonggi Province for 3.15 billion won. A three-story training center with a marina was built at the location. . . .” (7)
It is worth noting that, in addition to Lee and his wife Kim Nam-Hee attending a commemorative performance marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Little Angels arts group [a Moon subsidiary–D.E], Kim had a photo taken with key Moon lieutenant and intelligence operative Mr. Pak Bo Hi. Both the Shincheonji periodical and Moon periodicals published articles favorable to the event. (8)
Shincheonji’s agenda for having Lee Man-hee’s supposedly divine wife succeed him is identical to the Moon group’s elevation of Moon’s widow to succeed him. (She, too, is considered to be divine, according to Moon doctrine.) (9)
Most important of the points of overlap between the organizations is the position and influence of Kim Kun-Nam in Shincheonji: ” . . . . Kim Kun-nam, one of the two authors of Shintan, which can be called the first doctrine of Shincheonji, is from the Unification Church. Kim also served as a lecturer in the Unification Church. It is no exaggeration to say that Shincheonji doctrine developed on the basis of what Kim made. . . .” (10)
Again, the possibility that Shincheonji was used to deliberately vector Seoul and/or Wuhan must be very seriously considered.
The Military World Games
Another speculative point of inquiry concerns the Military World Games, which may have been a vector for infecting Wuhan, China and, possibly much of the rest of the world as well.
IF, for the sake of argument, fascist elements (CIA, Underground Reich or whatever) chose the US military athletes as a vector, it would have been altogether possible to do so without attracting attention. Military athletes are in superb condition and, if infected with one of the milder strains of Covid-19, their robust immune systems might well leave them asymptomatic, yet still contagious, or mildly ill at worst. They could then communicate the virus to other military athletes, who would then serve as a vector for other countries.
Early reports concerning the possibility of the infection coming from outside China but via the Military World Games did not originate with the U.S.
In fact, an article in Asia Times presents the hypothesis that Covid was a U.S. bioweapon and the Military World Games may have been one of the possible vectors: “ . . . . Zhao Lijian, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, voiced in an incandescent tweet the possibility that ‘it might be US Army who brought the epidemic to Wuhan’ . . . Zhao Lijian made a direct connection with the Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019, which included a delegation of 300 U.S. military. . . .” (11)
Highlighting a subject dealt with in the first article in this series, the story notes that the World Military Games began the same day as Event 201 was held in New York City: “ . . . . Extra questions linger about the opaque Event 201 in New York on October 18, 2019: a rehearsal for a worldwide pandemic caused by a deadly virus – which happened to be coronavirus. This magnificent coincidence happened one month before the outbreak in Wuhan. Event 201 was sponsored by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the World Economic Forum (WEF), the CIA, Bloomberg, John Hopkins Foundation and the UN. The World Military Games opened in Wuhan on the exact same day. . . .” (12)
Adding to the scrutiny attached to the World Military Games is analysis that American participants in those games appear to have helped the spread of the virus.
” . . . . Contrary to the Pentagon’s insistence, however, an investigation of COVID-19 cases in the military from official and public source materials shows that a strong correlation exists in COVID-19 cases reported at U.S. military facilities that are home bases of members of the U.S. team that went to Wuhan. Before March 31, when the Pentagon restricted the release of information about COVID-19 cases at installations for security reasons, infections occurred at a minimum of 63 military facilities where team members returned after the Wuhan games. Additionally, the U.S. team used chartered flights to and from the games via Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Washington was one of the earliest states to show a spike in COVID-19. . . .” (13)
Were those military athletes vectored at Wuhan? If so, who did the vectoring? It is important to bear in mind that biological warfare does not need to involve many people at all. A handful of individuals would be more than adequate to do the job.
Athletes from other countries’ delegations to the World Military Games appear to have contracted Covid and may have helped to spread it globally.
“. . . . A number of French athletes who were at the World Military Games from October 18 to 27 have since described coming down with severe flu-like symptoms while at the event. . . .French athletes believe they caught coronavirus at the World Military Games in Wuhan in October, 20 days before the first recorded case in China. . . .” (14)
Spanish participants in the Military World Games also reportedly contracted Covid. (15)
In addition, athletes from Italy and Luxembourg are among the participating contingents who appear to have been infected. “Italian fencer Matteo Tagliarol also said everyone in his apartment in the city fell ill with symptoms ‘that looked like those of COVID-19.’ Luxembourg triathlete Oliver Gorges said he fell ill with a flu and is now to undergo an antibody test this week to see if he has COVID-19. . . .” (16)
Was the New York City Subway System Vectored?
One of the most epidemiologically interesting aspects of the Covid-19 infection concerns the fact that one in five New Yorkers tested positive for the SARS CoV‑2.
“ . . . . One of every five New York City residents tested positive for antibodies to the coronavirus, according to preliminary results described by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Thursday that suggested that the virus had spread far more widely than known. . . .” (17)
Epidemiologically anomalous is the fact that New York City emerged as the epicenter of the virus.
New York City has long been a focal point of right-wing/fascist hatred. With large non-white populations, a large Jewish population, a strong liberal political tradition and the epicenter of the financial industry (viewed by Nazis and their ilk as “Jewish”), New York would be a target for vectoring by Underground Reich elements.
The right has been calling the virus as the “Cuomovirus.”
“ . . . . New York City’s coronavirus outbreak grew so large by early March that the city became the primary source of new infections in the United States, new research reveals, as thousands of infected people traveled from the city and seeded outbreaks around the country. . . The findings are drawn from geneticists’ tracking signature mutations of the virus, travel histories of infected people and models of the outbreak by infectious disease experts. . . ‘We now have enough data to feel pretty confident that New York was the primary gateway for the rest of the country,’ said Nathan Grubaugh, an epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health. . . .” (18)
This epidemiological anomaly brings to mind the 1965 experiment in which the New York City Subway was vectored with an allegedly harmless biological agent.
Of significant interest in that regard is Steven Hatfill and his close professional relationship with fellow biological warfare expert Bill Patrick, who directed the above experiment/attack on the New York City subway: “. . . . Then there’s the 1965 simulated attack on the New York City subway. On June 8 of that year, under Bill Patrick’s direction, the subway was targeted with the anthrax simulant B.g. Lightbulbs, each containing 87 trillion spores, were dropped onto the tracks. Trains then sucked the clouds of live bacteria into the subway system. C.I.A. and military scientists, bearing fake ID’s, were on location to count the spores. More than a million riders were exposed to B.g. that day; many inhaled more than a million spores per minute. Patrick, when telling this story, still chuckles about how ‘we clobbered the Lexington line with B.g.’. . . .” (19)
Hatfill and Patrick became something of a team, despite the age difference. ” . . . . The most curious piece of fieldwork noted on Steven Hatfill’s most recent C.V. is that of ‘open air testing and vulnerability trials.’ In a 2001 paper, ‘Biological Warfare Scenarios,’ Bill Patrick called the 1965 simulated attack on the New York subway ‘one of the most important vulnerability studies’ of the 70 he conducted. . . . By 1998, Hatfill was Patrick’s sidekick in what one colleague has described as a ‘Batman and Robin’ team. . . .” (20)
As Don Foster noted in his 2003 article, Hatfill was a veteran covert operator whose CV places him in the constellation of the 2001 anthrax attacks, although investigations skirted any possible responsibility. (21)
Another thought-provoking development in that context was New York Andrew Cuomo’s decision to close the New York City Subway overnight for cleaning.
“. . . . The decision to halt regularly scheduled overnight service for the first time in the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s history demonstrates the stark steps state officials are taking to preserve a system that is critical to reviving New York’s economy when businesses begin to reopen. . . .” (22)
Also thought provoking is the fact that New York City dramatically flattened the curve after the decision was made to begin cleaning the Subway at night. Deaths plummeted from a peak of 500 a day to just 36 in June.
“ . . . . The coronavirus has ravaged New York City for months, killing more than 20,000 people and overwhelming hospitals and funeral homes. At the city’s peak in April, more than 500 people died daily. But the numbers have dropped dramatically in recent weeks. On Wednesday, 36 people died from Covid-19 across the entire state. ‘Look at what we did. Flatten the curve? Forget flatten the curve. … We bent the curve,’ Gov. Andrew Cuomo said. . . .” (23)
Conclusion
Once again, it should be emphasized that discussion of possible vectors is speculative. Nonetheless, the epidemiological anomalies of the infectious manifestation of Covid-19 warrant such inquiry.
Again, in a speculative mode, Hatfill has documented connections to apartheid organizations in Africa, as well as Rhodesia’s Selous Scouts.
” . . . . Here is a fellow [Hatfill] with a fake Ph.D. who posed for The Washington Times as a bioterrorist with a homemade plague disseminator, and who boasted as recently as last year of having served with the apartheid government’s notorious Selous Scouts during the Rhodesian anthrax epidemic. I have three different editions of his curriculum vitae . . . How did such a rascal come to be instructing the C.I.A., F.B.I., Defense Intelligence Agency, army, navy, Marines, U.S. marshals, and State Department on such matters as the handling of deadly pathogens and of bioterror incidents ? . . .” (24)
Hatfill also was affiliated with the apartheid forces in South Africa: ” . . . . The FBI’s investigation [of the anthrax attacks] this time focused on Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, who once worked as a research scientist at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Hatfill had spent considerable time in South Africa, and was affiliated with the Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB). However, after a thorough investigation, the FBI eventually cleared Hatfill of any connection to the anthrax attacks. . . .” (25)
The effect of the pandemic on the electoral fortunes of Donald Trump is discussed in the first article in this series. A distinctive feature of “Team Trump” is the profound links between key people in his administration and the apartheid government of South Africa. (26)
Notes
2.—Idem.
3.—Idem.
6.—“Klaus Barbie: A Killer’s Career” by Kai Hermann; Covert Action Quarterly; #25 (Winter 1986); p. 19.
8.—Idem.
9.—Idem.
10.—Idem.
11.– “China Locked in Hybrid War with U.S.” by Pepe Escobar [Asia Times]; Consortium News; 3/18/2020.
12.—Idem.
14.– “Did European athletes catch coronavirus while competing at World Military Games in Wuhan in OCTOBER? French delegation returned with fevers, after fishmonger is found to have been contaminated in December” by Ross Ibbetson; Daily Mail; May 6, 2020.
15.– “Spanish athletes displayed coronavirus symptoms following the World Military Games in Wuhan in October 2019” by Dimitris Kouimtsidis; The Olive Press; May 8, 2020.
16.—“More athletes claim they contracted COVID-19 at Military World Games in Wuhan” by Michael Houston; Inside the Games; May 17, 2020.
18.– “American Outbreak Caught Fire in New York” by Benedict Carey and James Glanz; The New York Times; 5/08/2020; pp. A1-A9 [Western Edition].
19.—“The Message in the Anthrax” by Don Foster; Vanity Fair; October 2003; pp. 188–200.
20.—Idem.
21.—Idem.
22.– “N.Y.C.’s Subway, a 24/7 Mainstay, Will Close for Overnight Disinfection” by Christina Goldbaum; The New York Times; 4/30/2020.
23.– “New York City flattened the curve. Now its comeback begins” by Kyle Almon; CNN; 6/08/2020.
24.– “The Message in the Anthrax” by Don Foster; Vanity Fair; October 2003; pp. 188–200.
2.It is important to understand how the pandemic has manifested an American and global eugenics agenda.
The Covid-19 “Op” Part 5: The Eugenic Virus
“ . . . . The blueprint of eugenics can still be traced in healthcare and public health, as evidenced by our reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic. . . .” (1)
Among the salient aspects of the deliberate creation and dissemination of Covid-19 is the eugenic factor in the pandemic’s manifestation.
Eugenics is a social philosophy that was at the root of the Third Reich’s extermination policies and was, and is, a dominant element in power political thinking.
Background
Eugenics is a discipline that was institutionalized and popular in much of the industrialized world.
Seeking to improve the physical, genetic makeup of their populations, the discipline embraced various procedures. Eugenic implementation included blocking those deemed “undesirable” from immigrating to their societies, encouraging pre-natal care to prospective mothers who were deemed “desirable,” the sterilization of those deemed unfit and legally barring intermarriage between white people and those deemed racially inferior.
Once a respected, institutionalized social philosophy, eugenics reached its apex with the Third Reich in Germany.
In Mein Kampf, Hitler cited the U.S. Immigration Restriction Act of 1924 as a precedent for establishing racial purity. “ . . . . When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.S. Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which prohibited the immigration of those with hereditary illnesses and entire ethnic groups. . . .” (2)
Hitler and the Nazis leaned heavily on U.S. eugenic sterilization policy, California in particular. “ . . . . A favorable report on the results of sterilization in California, the state with the most sterilizations by far, was published in book form by the biologist Paul Popenoe and was widely cited by the Nazi government as evidence that wide-reaching sterilization programs were feasible and humane. . . .” (3)
The foundation of the Third Reich’s extermination policy was the Law for The Protection of German Blood and Honor, strongly influenced by California model sterilization law, crafted by Paul Popenoe. “ . . . . In the mid-1920s, Popenoe began working with E.S. Gosney, a wealthy California financier, and the Human Betterment Foundation to promote eugenic policies in California. In 1909, California had enacted its first compulsory sterilization law to allow for the sterilization of the mentally ill and the mentally retarded in its state psychiatric hospitals. . . .” (4)
Promoting procreative unions between SS men and racially desirable women, sterilizing and ultimately exterminating those deemed “inferior” and ultimately exterminating entire racial groups, the Third Reich’s practices stemmed from mainstream eugenic philosophy, American eugenic policy in particular.
Enter SARS CoV‑2
The Covid pandemic reinforced the enduring nature of eugenic philosophy: “ . . . . The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the viral nature of eugenic philosophy, which has continued to guide U.S. treatment of the captive and vulnerable for over 100 years. The long tail of eugenics informs our choices over those we institutionalize, detain, and sequester in long-term care and group homes. . . .” (5)
Those who were deemed to be of lesser importance were deliberately placed in circumstances that jeopardized and, or, took their lives.
Nursing Homes
Among the groups of people who were deliberately subjected to Covid infection and death were the residents of nursing homes. “ . . . . Long-term adult care facilities have been notoriously deadly hubs during the pandemic. Approximately forty percent of all COVID-19 deaths in the United States have been linked to nursing homes. Up through November 2020, 100,033 residents and staff at long-term care facilities have died from COVID-19.[cxi] In at least 23 states, the majority of COVID-19 deaths have occurred in adult long-term care facilities. . .” (6)
Prisoners
Those confined to prisons and other institutions suffered enormously during the pandemic. “ . . . . The legacy of eugenic thinking still leads to various troubling outcomes, including an almost complete abandonment of prisoners, who have suffered
explosive COVID spread without safeguards or treatment. . . .” (7)Veterans
Among those deemed “expendable” during the pandemic were aging and disabled veterans “ . . . . In one Massachusetts veterans care facility, for example, a staffing
shortage led the management to combine two locked dementia wards,237
mixing infected residents with those who tested negative.238 Seventy-six
of these residents died.239 Moreover, staff members at this home were
specifically directed not to wear masks and gowns while caring for ill
patients. . . .” (8)People of Color in Developing Nations
Not surprisingly, the Covid pandemic awakened prejudicial racist stereotypes, with people in Africa being heavily stigmatized.
The advent of the Omicron variant, originating in South Africa intensified racist, eugenic categorization. The UK, Canada and the U.S. were among the countries manifesting this stereotyping. “ . . . . They introduced rushed spontaneous travel restrictions with red lists almost exclusively made up of African countries, so much so that it had been labelled a ‘Black list’. . . .” (9)
The contrast between Nigeria’s inclusion on the list despite having just three recorded cases and the failure to list Portugal and the Netherlands (with 19 recorded cases) is striking and revealing. (10).
Noteworthy is how the stigmatizing of African countries in connection with Covid echoes and recapitulates the larger, eugenicist stereotyping of “immigrants,” dovetailing with a larger and historically dominant hostility toward “immigrants.” “ . . . . The exclusive Blacklisting of African countries in the name of public health and protection we recently saw is reminiscent of this [eugenicist] rhetoric and also of general immigration policy, sentiment and language used about migrants and refugees. . . .” (11)
The fact that the Omicron variant was said to have originated in South Africa reinforces the racist and eugenicist stereotyping of Covid. That South African origin is disputed. (12)
Further exhibiting the racist/eugenicist stereotyping of Africans is the Covid vaccination program. “ . . . . The international Covid vaccine supply programme COVAX has seen African countries at the bottom of the priority list. As a result, only 8.6 percent of the continent is fully vaccinated, with that number dropping to 0.09 percent of the population in DR Congo. . . .” (13)
Racist Mortality in the U.S.
The U.S. presented a disturbing, familiar and racist lethality among members of its population: “ . . . . The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that ‘Black, Native American, and Hispanic people are dying at three times the rate of white people,’ even as these groups are presently being vaccinated at a rate disproportionately lower than whites, and in amounts lower than their overall rate within the national population. . . .” (14)
Prophylactic Measures for the Elite
Contrasting sharply with the treatment given to people in the developing world and minorities in the West is the extensive measures taken by the elite at the Davos World Forum.
“ . . . . this week the richest people in the world are taking common sense, easy- but strict- precautions to ensure they don’t catch Covid-19 at Davos. . . . In addition to high-quality ventilation, masks, hotlines and PCR testing, some have noted the signature blue glow of Far-UVC lighting, demonstrated to kill pathogens in the air . . . . We can be certain, however, that the testing, high-quality ventilation, and filtration protocol is effective at preventing the kind of super-spreader events most of us are now accustomed to attending. . . .” (15)
Trump’s Covid Eugenicist Outlook
In addition to his anti-immigrant ideology, Trump has presented a crystallizing outlook toward the pandemic. “ . . . . And both he and his administration—at times explicitly, other times tacitly— endorsed a ‘herd immunity’ approach to the COVID-19 pandemic that subordinated the interests of older people, those with disabilities, and members of racial minority groups to others. . . .” (16)
Perhaps more significant than Trump’s own eugenicist orientation toward Covid is the manifestation of a larger, pro-eugenics orientation on the part of significant interests in this society.
“ . . . . Trump’s response to the pandemic is best understood as resting significantly on eugenic ideas. But what is more important than Donald Trump’s own actions is that the eugenic ideas underlying them seem to have been widely endorsed . . . . by a large and vocal minority with substantial support from many business and state-government entities. . . .” (17)
Senior Citizens: Culling the Herd
With the GOP unabashedly pushing to “de-platform” Social Security and Medicare, it is worth taking stock of the dramatic effect of Covid-19 on senior citizens.
So many died of Covid, that (for the time being, at least) the Social Security trust fund registered billions of dollars in savings. “ . . . . As the U.S. approaches the fifth anniversary of the official start of the COVID-19 pandemic, new research finds so many Americans died from the virus that the nation’s Social Security trust fund will see a net increase of hundreds of billions of dollars as a result of retirement benefits that will not be paid out. . . .” (18a)
Getting rid of the “Old Folks,” as the song called them, is a good way of alleviating pressure on Social Security and Medicare.
. . . . A hundred thousand deaths is more than the annual toll of any other infectious disease and would make Covid-19 a top-10 cause of death in the country — a major and novel cause of widespread death clouding the American horizon with another dark layer of morbidity we had never known before. . . .
. . . . How do you calculate a loss 10 times as high? How can you reckon with that level of dying, each year, going forward? According to Céline Gounder, an infectious disease epidemiologist and a senior fellow at the Kaiser Family Foundation, that figure is actually the low end — the ballpark, she says, runs from 100,000 to 250,000. That’s not her estimate of this year’s toll but of the annual continuing mortality burden rolling forward indefinitely into the future. “And the question I have is, how much death are we OK with?” she asks. “Have we decided this is OK? And if so, why?” . . . . (18b)
Conclusion
Taken in combination with information in the other articles in this series, the eugenicist nature of the Covid pandemic can be seen as a different iteration of the deliberately lethal manifestation of that philosophy that we saw in Nazi Germany.
Although eclipsed by the nominal defeat of the Third Reich in World War II, we can view the Covid-19 “op” as a perpetuation of the most extreme, violent philosophical policies of a eugenics philosophy that is resurgent in the 21st century.
Notes
1.– “Hiding in Plain Sight: Public Health, Eugenics, and COVID-19” By Laura I Appleman; HPHR. 2021; 30. [This is a document that is substantively brilliant as it is long and exhaustively documented. We emphatically recommend it.]
2.—The Nazi Connection by Stefan Kuhl; Oxford University Press (HC); ISBN: 0–19-534878–8.
3.—“History of Eugenics;” Wikipedia.org.
4.—“Paul Popenoe;” Wikipedia.org.
5.—“Hiding in Plain Sight: Public Health, Eugenics, and COVID-19” By Laura I Appleman; HPHR. 2021; 30.
6.—Idem.
7.—Idem.
8.—Idem.
9.—“Eugenic nostalgia: Covid-19 unmasks the West’s racism towards Africans” by Ayo Olatunji; https://trtworld.com/opinion.
10.—Idem.
11.—Idem.
12.—Idem.
13.—Idem.
14.—“COVID, Disablement, and the ‘Return to Normal’” by Keith Rosenthal and Ari Parra; Monthly Review; October 01, 2021.
15.– “Billionaires at Davos don’t think COVID is a cold” by Julia Doubleday; The Gauntlet; 1/19/2023.
16.– “The New Eugenics” by Samuel R. Bagenstos; University of Michigan Law Scholarship Repository; 2021.
17.—Idem.
18a.—“So Many Americans Died of Covid, It’s Boosting Social Security to The Tune of $205 Billion” by Alicia Adamczyk; Fortune; February 19, 2025.
18b.–“Endemic Covid-19 Is Looking Brutal” by David Wallace-Wells; The New York Times; 7/24/2022.
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