https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2022/09/the_pandemic_was_a_grand_rehearsal_for_the_great_reset.html

The Pandemic was a Grand Rehearsal for the Great Reset

Fear is the key to obtaining compliance. And by obtaining mass compliance during the pandemic, the global elite — operating through political leaders, international bodies, NGOs, and a vast network of "experts" and bureaucrats — audaciously tested ground for the Great Reset. "Populations have overwhelmingly shown a willingness to make sacrifices," said Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF). "The changes we have seen in response to COVID-19 prove that a reset of our economic and social foundations is possible."

In his new book The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown, Marc Morano lays bare how "15 days to slow the spread" was actually "15 days to begin your conditioning to accept a new level of tyranny."

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Morano believes that post-9/11, with the expansion of government powers through the PATRIOT Act, the so-called Global War on Terror (GWOT) evolved into a war against the populations of Western democracies. Ironically, this war on Islamists produced authoritarian police states that curtailed any criticism of jihadist aspects of Islam, prohibited training of agents on Islamic doctrine, welcomed Muslim Brotherhood operatives into government, and insisted that "Islam is a religion of peace."

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Lies were peddled freely. Hospitals jacked up the numbers of COVID patients and deaths, incentivized by the Congressional Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act authorizing more funds for hospitals with corona patients. Dr. Thomas T. Siler noted that, "[a]ccording to the Centers for Disease Control, only 6% of those who died with Covid-19 had no other pre-existing health conditions, while 94% had an average of four health conditions already affecting them."

If the dominant narrative was questioned, the entity doing the questioning was suppressed as "misinformation" by means of the "cancel culture." The mainstream media and Big Tech groups controlling social media were complicit in this exercise, becoming enforcers for the WHO, the CDC, and other health bureaucracies. YouTube, for example, removed 800,000 videos allegedly containing coronavirus misinformation in one year, while Twitter challenged 11.5 million accounts when COVID guidance was implemented, and Instagram removed 1 million pieces of COVID "misinformation" in three months.

Billionaire wealth reached record highs — one of the greatest wealth transfers in history, which will only accelerate as a digital currency is set up and a China-style social scoring system is implemented. Small business, meanwhile, is being decimated. Through the economic collapse, unemployment, and inflation caused by the pandemic, a dependency regime of handouts is being created to wipe out competitiveness and the push for excellence in the name of equity.

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