Do Authoritarians 'Care' About You?

Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
((Fact Checked)) 09/16/2022
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Story at-a-glance

• The basis for forcing an experimental gene therapy on everyone was that it would end the COVID pandemic by preventing infection and spread. Real-world reality has since proven this to be a false justification
• Authoritarian rulers claim to act from deep concern for public health and the greater good of society. Historically, however, invoking "the greater good" principle has always been about disenfranchising citizens in order to consolidate and concentrate power
• Throughout the pandemic, governments, employers, NGOs and media have argued that the social responsibility to "protect others" is so paramount that it negates all other considerations
• But unless everyone has bodily autonomy, no one has bodily autonomy, and without it, everyone, including the most vulnerable, are put at risk. Hence, the rationale to "protect the vulnerable" falls apart unless everyone is allowed to make their own decisions
• When everyone has to sacrifice themselves for others, then everyone's autonomy is violated — including that of the most vulnerable. The COVID vaccination campaign is a glaring example of this. Many who got the shots are still getting sick, many have been injured or died from the side effects, while those who refused to comply lost their jobs and, in some areas, can't even enter a store. Everyone has lost protection rather than gained it

Government officials, public health officials, media and a whole host of other talking heads that parrot official talking points have repeatedly lied to us. We knew this, but now — without apology — they're all starting to "admit" it by subtly changing the narrative.

As noted by comedian Jimmy Dore in the August 3, 2022, episode of "The Jimmy Dore Show" (video above):

"This story is very close to my heart, because it exonerates me. They've been lying about COVID, they've been lying about the vaccines, they've been lying about herd immunity, they've been lying about natural immunity, they've been lying about masks.

They've been lying about children — they've been lying about everything! Who'd have thunk the government and Big Pharma would lie to us? For profit? I am flummoxed. I am beside myself with slack-jawedness."

Now, They're Eating Their Own Words

He goes on to review specific examples, such as President Biden claiming "You're not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations." Or Dr. Anthony Fauci, who said "When they are vaccinated, they can feel safe they are not going to get infected."

Or Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who stated, "If you've done the right thing and gotten vaccinated, you deserve the freedom to be safe from COVID-19." (Word salad aside — can you "deserve freedom to be safe" from an infection? — nevertheless, he makes the point that you supposedly won't get COVID if you got the jab.)

Vice President Kamala Harris said, "If you are vaccinated, you are protected." Daniel Andrews, premier in Victoria, Canada, claimed that with three doses, you would be "prevented not only from serious illness, but from getting this virus, this Omicron variant, and therefore giving it to others."

Victoria chief health officer professor Brett Sutton, who got the AstraZeneca jab, insisted it was a "very effective vaccine" that reduced "risk of transmission." Every one of these officials has now contracted COVID, some two or three times.

Knew the Shots Were Leaky

A primary objection to vaccine mandates was, as Dore points out, that a leaky "vaccine" — one that doesn't actually prevent infection and spread — cannot protect anyone other than the one getting the shot. So, the argument that COVID jab refusers were killing people was false. The notion that getting the jab would protect people around you was rubbish.

"These were lies," Dore says, "they were not making a mistake. They were lying."

What's the incentive for lying about an injection that clearly cannot do what you say it can? Dore suggests they were lying on behalf of their donors — Pfizer, Moderna, et. al. Of course, the National Institutes of Health,¹,² for example, also owns patents related to these jabs, so they make money from them directly.

So, with the truth now being self-evident, why aren't media asking why Fauci, Biden, Harris, Trudeau and the rest were spreading misinformation? Where's the follow-up? And where are the apologies? Rachel Maddow, would you like to revise this proven-untrue statement, made on "The Rachel Maddow Show?"

"Instead of the virus being able to hop from person to person to person, spreading and spreading … now we KNOW that the vaccines work well enough; that the virus STOPS with every vaccinated person.

A vaccinated person gets exposed to the virus, the virus does not infect them, the virus can then not use that person to go anywhere else. It cannot use a vaccination person as a host to get more people. That means the vaccines will get us to the end of this."

This propaganda did not age well, and that's putting it mildly. Now, they're trying to sidestep the landmines of truth — real-world realities — and claim that the shots were never intended to prevent infection, it was always about preventing serious illness and keeping you out of the hospital. But the statements quoted above, which is just a small sampling, prove otherwise.

The very basis and justification for forcing an experimental gene therapy on everyone was that it would end the pandemic by preventing infection and spread. People lost their jobs over that fraudulent justification. Friendships have been lost and family ties broken because people believed the propaganda that said if you don't get the shot, you don't care about others. Your very presence could be lethal to them. So, if you care about others, you will get the shot.

Do Authoritarians Care About You?

That brings us to a more important question, and that is, do these authoritarians actually care about any of us? They claim the reason for their actions is their deep concern for public health and the good of society. But is that really the case? Or is it just a PR strategy?

After all, coming out and saying you want to reduce the population by some percentage, or eliminate the financial drain by the elderly and the handicapped, isn't going to encourage compliance with the strategies intended to bring about those effects, is it. It would make more sense to tell people to comply "for their own good, and the good of others." Then, the intended effect — depopulation — is brought about by voluntary sacrifice.

Totalitarianism as 'Care'

In "Totalitarianism as 'Care,'"³ political commentator Elena Louisa Lange dissects the biomedical regime's moral imperative to "protect the vulnerable," which in 2020, for the first time, came to mean that everyone, regardless of personal risk, had to isolate, wear a mask and get an experimental gene therapy, "regardless of the price in bodily integrity and autonomy."

The left's pretense of 'protecting the vulnerable' is not only politically and socially corrosive. It also rests, philosophically, on an indefensible and authoritarian rationale.
~ Elena Louisa Lange

In a show of solidarity never before seen, hundreds of companies changed their logos and brand slogans to promote the COVID jabs. Political parties, schools, media, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) also told us to just get the jab — or else. The following extract from Lange's article is a bit longer than usual, but the expanded context is what makes Lange's point clear. Beyond this, I recommend reading her article in its entirety:⁴

"The rhetoric of 'vulnerability' and 'care' bullied the masses into accepting a string of human- and civil-rights violations, such as being imprisoned in our own homes, the oxymoronic 'social distancing,' masking, and, above all, mandated vaccinations unprecedented in their severity and global scale.

Yet the left's pretense of 'protecting the vulnerable' is not only politically and socially corrosive. It also rests, philosophically, on an indefensible and authoritarian rationale.

The exclusive attention given to the abstract framework of 'vulnerability' and 'solidarity,' 'community' and 'care' — always 'for others,' never for oneself — served to disguise the loss of income and psychological damage caused by large-scale civil-rights suspensions …

The idea of vulnerability as a guiding political principle of the left goes back to the birth of social-democratic and labor parties in the early 20th century. It was the working class that needed protection from the cruel vicissitudes of the market …

But since the emergence of the neoliberal consensus in the 1970s, a remarkable shift has taken place … It is no longer the working class … but specific identity groups, the racially marginalized and the sexually excluded, who became 'vulnerable subjects' …

What really cemented the PMC [professional-managerial class] left's rise to power, however, was a more fundamental epistemic shift. The left … usually busy declaring everything to be a 'social construct,' suddenly proclaimed the novel coronavirus to be a 'natural phenomenon,' a 'challenge by uncontrollable natural forces' … the virus was to be seen as a self-acting agent with its own subjective intent, motives, even political agenda.

This fetishistic inversion — ascribing autonomous powers to a lifeless thing — legitimated technocratic solutions like lockdowns and the feverishly promoted mass vaccinations, no matter the social costs. Moreover, turning the virus into an intentional agent shifted the blame for suicides and domestic violence, the loss of income, and extreme police violence against protesters, away from the politicians and bureaucrats, and onto 'nature.'

A pathogen … is only as severe as the social response to it. If the response, justified as an 'objective constraint' of the virus, is more lethal than the cause, then we are dealing with a disastrous fallacy …

'[V]ulnerability' in the PMC's imagination had to be shifted from vulnerable groups in the precise sense (the elderly, children, precarious service workers, etc.) to an undifferentiated whole under constant attack from the enemies of civil society, which happened to be the professionals' own political enemies.

This move conveniently enabled the identification of the 'fight against the virus' with the 'fight against fascism,' conflating questions of medical hygiene with those of 'social hygiene.'

The vocal denunciation of critics of the biopolitical security state as 'right-wingers,' conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxxers, and so on was only legible, and consequential, against the backdrop of this conflation, for it put the question of the defeat of the virus on par with the victory of the left."

Transhistorical Rationale of Civil-Rights Violations

How are "vulnerable" people "protected" by the destruction of lives and livelihoods, and the removal of basic civil rights and Constitutional freedoms? Our authoritarian leaders have yet to explain this self-defeating rationale. All we get is Orwellian double-speak, where war is peace and slavery is freedom.

Lange points out that once you go beyond political motives, the argument against forced vaccinations tells us a lot about the transhistorical rationale of civil-rights violations by the state.

Throughout history, the driving objective of power-hungry elites is the disenfranchisement of ordinary citizens. And how do you disenfranchise people? By taking away basic rights, such as the right to drink a cup of coffee or eat a meal you're willing and able to pay for in a restaurant, lest you first submit to medical experimentation.

And how do you get people to submit to medical experimentation? By shaming them as egotists who care nothing for society. In a fiery speech, 23-year-old Green Member of the German Bundestag, Emilia Fester (quoted in full by Lange), argued that:

"It is not mandated vaccination that is the imposition, but no mandated vaccination — an imposition for the solidarity-based majority … Getting vaccinated can no longer be an individual decision!"⁵

Violation of Physical Boundaries Protects No One

Throughout the pandemic, governments, employers, NGOs and media have argued that the social responsibility to "protect others" is so paramount that it negates all other considerations. According to them, one individual's freedom and bodily autonomy ends where the freedom and autonomy of another begins.

Rather than being sovereign individuals who make decisions for ourselves, we are to view ourselves as links in a never-ending chain, where every decision you make will impact the people around you, and if your decision has even so much as the potential to restrict their freedom and autonomy — such as, for example, if you make them sick so they can't work or socialize — then you "don't have the right" to make that decision.

As noted by Lange, the moral imposition can be summarized as: "Give up your bodily integrity to protect the bodily integrity of others." But rather than protecting others, the end result is the opposite, because it creates "infinite regress."

In other words, if I give up my bodily integrity for you, then you have to give up yours for others, who also have to give up theirs, and so on. So, in the end, no one has the right to, ever, say no to anything, even if what's asked might cause injury or death.

Since there's no backstop, and everyone has to sacrifice themselves for others, no one is actually protected. Instead, everyone's at risk. Everyone's autonomy has been violated — including that of the most vulnerable. The COVID vaccination campaign is a glaring example of this.

Many who got the shots are still getting sick, many have been injured or died from the side effects, while those who refused to comply lost their jobs and, in some areas, can't even enter a store. Everyone has lost rather than gained, and in more ways than one. Bodily Integrity for All Is the Best Protection

Not only does the demand of self-sacrifice for others put the most vulnerable at risk of injury and death, since they too must roll the dice with risky medical interventions in order to "protect others," but it also eliminates our moral ability to defend and protect the physical autonomy of others. If we cannot defend our own boundaries, how can we defend the boundaries of others?

Sadly, we now have real-world examples of where this all leads. Children and adults in need of organ transplants, for example, are being denied life-saving procedures for lack of COVID injection, even though the shot is more likely to kill them than protect anyone around them (supposedly the already COVID-jabbed and boosted hospital staff). We've entered a state of such massive moral degradation that it hardly seems human anymore.

The only way to actually protect people and minimize harm is by allowing everyone to do what they think is best for themselves. As noted by Lange:⁶

"In consequence, either there is general physical autonomy for each and every single individual, implying mutual respect for one's physical boundaries, or there is none. The violation of physical boundaries … is never in the interest of the 'vulnerable,' because the protection of bodily integrity itself is already the best guarantee for the protection of 'others,' as well as oneself: It is, in fact, the only guarantee of physical protection for everyone.

This becomes even more apparent in the COVID case when we consider that the vaccinated can be infected and can infect others, and, therefore, potentially hurt them. In this sense, the logical framework for COVID mass vaccinations in the name of 'vulnerability' is self-defeating."

'Social Care' Narrative Is About Consolidation of Power

One of the key take-home messages in Lange's article is that this "social care" and "responsibility for others" paradigm is a ploy used to consolidate power.

In her words:⁷
"In sum, the claim to 'protect the vulnerable' is the more or less direct demand to yield to political disenfranchisement under the guise of the honorable project of care … The left's political project of 'protecting the vulnerable' is nothing short of window-dressing authoritarianism."

The authoritarians don't actually care about people and their health. Anyone can realize this simply by analyzing their actions, rather than their words. They care about controlling people as a means to gain more power. Of course, the more power they get, the more they need to control you, lest you rise up and strip them of that power.

The hallmark call of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes is to "serve the greater good" by sacrificing selfhood. Everything is about the collective. There's no room for individuality. In my interview with psychologist Mattias Desmet, he explains the psychology of totalitarianism, and the conditions that precede the rise of totalitarian systems.

The same "care" narrative is also being used to prop up the "climate emergency." We're now told we have to sacrifice our standard of living because we have a responsibility for others and for the earth. We have to rein in our personal carbon footprint because pollution is deadly, and if you don't, you're — again — responsible for widespread death.

While pollution is a reality that needs to be addressed, the solutions the totalitarian cabal is offering is a gigantic scam designed to disempower and control everyone but the ones at the very top of the power pyramid, while accomplishing little in terms of producing a cleaner environment.

Sources and References
¹ Nature December 2021; 600(7888): 200-201
² CBS News November 15, 2021
³ , ⁴ , ⁵ , ⁶ , ⁷ Compact Magazine July 15, 2022 (Archived)

The Polio Vaccine—add this footnote

Salk's polio vaccine caused 1000s of polio cases, with 200 kids left paralyzed and 10 dead.

What is often ignored is that, although Americans lived in fear of the dreaded disease nicknamed “infantile paralysis,” and polio was the most feared disease of the 20th century, it was not the deadliest. Ten times as many kids died in accidents and three times as many to cancer.

It surely didn't help matters that a prominent American had been struck down with polio. Future president Franklin D. Roosevelt, got the disease in 1921 at the age of 39 and was left partially paralyzed and used a wheelchair during his presidency.

The narrative goes that polio occurrences were sporadic and low and "major" polio epidemics were unknown before the 20th century. In the 1900s was when "major" epidemics began to occur in Europe. Soon after, it is claimed that widespread epidemics appeared in the United States. By 1910, frequent epidemics became regular events throughout the developed world primarily in cities during the summer months.

Disease inducing viruses festering during the summer months; should there have been a concern for hygiene; or the need to stay clean and dry? Institutions back then had a poor understanding about the impact of catchy phrases like; "Wear, Wait, Wash" or "Hands. Face. Space."

At polio's peak in 1952, there were 58,000 new cases reported in the U.S., more than 3,000 (5.2%) died and over 21,000 (36.2%) had varying degrees of paralysis.

For perspective—influenza or "the seasonal flu" kills about 19,000 Americans in an average year.

The Salk polio vaccine contained formaldehyde: Salk's “killed-virus” vaccine was made by growing samples of the virus and then deactivating them by adding formaldehyde.

Jonas Salk also tackled influenza (in 1938 using fertilized chicken eggs a method that is still used today). His flu vaccine is still in use today. For the 2020-21 flu season, the CDC expects 81% of the vaccine supply to be egg-based.

Covid virus has been reportedly mutating, with "more contagious" variants or strains making appearances in South Africa*, Spain, U.K. and Brazil. Is this a similar pattern as the "seasonal flu?" If so, should we be concerned about the verity of the glowing reports on the 62-94% vaccine efficacy against the virus?

* A large round of human trials took place in South Africa, locally managed by the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg—a Gates-funded institution.

The claims of efficacy rate for Covid vaccines:

Novavax—96%, Pfizer—94%, Moderna—94%, J&J—72%, AstraZeneca—62%. The U.S. is the most vaccinated country in the world, counterintuitively it has the highest number of Covid cases, and the highest fatality rate.

Worldwide number of reported cases total 136,782,060. Top three countries with the most Covid cases and deaths as of April 12, 2021, by the numbers are:

#1 USA (pop. 332,510,877) — 31,922,097 (d. 575,851)
#2 India (pop. 1,390,530,992) — 13,527,717 (d. 170,209)
#3 Brazil (pop. 213,732,948)— 13,482,543 (d. 353,293)

Death rate percent for top three countries
USA — 0.17318260539188% or 0.17%
India — 0.012240575792934% or 0.012%
Brazil — 0.16529646145151% or 0.17%

The concerning side-effects of these vaccines up to and including death are mostly discounted by health authorities as unrelated anomalies, with rare instances of doctors, health experts and activists voicing healthy opposition to the unapproved vaxpricks.

The CDC's list of common side-effects, include tiredness, headache, muscle pain, chills, fever and nausea. However, some have been visited with more severe symptoms, like facial paralysis or bells palsy, brain blood clots, severe allergy, vasovagal syncope (fainting) pulmonary embolism, and anaphylaxis.

Polio Vaccine's historic impact

In July 1952, Salk tested his vaccine on 43 children at two Pittsburgh institutions, and later injected himself and his family.

The guinea pigs were children from the Arsenal Elementary School and the D.T. Watson Home for Crippled Children in Pittsburgh.

When a larger clinical trial commenced in the summer of 1954. The Salk vaccine clinical trial in was the biggest public health EXPERIMENT in U.S. history for it's time. It involved vast numbers of health professionals and over 1.8 million schoolchildren were volunteered by desperate parents.

Bill and Melinda Gates in Africa—vaccines that cause polio.

Polio cases today are extremely rare (no new cases had been reported in all of Africa since 2016!), but in Africa and India respectively, the UN and Indian doctors report that new cases of infantile paralysis or polio have resulted from an oral polio vaccine developed with strong support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

In 2014, the Kenyan Catholic Doctors Association became suspicious of the vaccines they were receiving from Gates and company and sent multiple batches to be tested.

Researchers discovered that the vaccines that were being administered to 2.3 million African girls were full of HCG, an antigen that causes miscarriages and sterilization.

In India, Gates Foundation backed human trials of the HPV, Cervarix and Gardisil vaccines making guinea pigs out of remote tribal children. These vaccines are for sexually transmitted diseases, which is 100% preventable if girls don’t have unprotected sex.

In Andhra Pradesh, India, the authorities say five children died immediately after receiving a Gardisil shot and many more became violently ill. In another village, two children died, and hundreds were hospitalized after receiving the HPV vaccine.

Reference: Gates vaccine spreads polio-across africa

Polio experiment gone wrong

When the accolades are written, little if anything is ever said about the 200,000 people who were injected with a tainted batch of the Salk vaccine causing 1000s of polio cases, with 200 kids left paralyzed and 10 dead.

"Today polio has almost been eradicated." —Amanda Uren (Mashable)

The Polio hysteria of the 50s is recalled with horror to this day. But it is way overshadowed by the global experiment ("The Plandemic" or "The Great Reset") that is SARS-CoV-2 of 2019-2020-2021.

Regardless of proven efficacy (these rushed vaccines are not sufficiently tested or FDA approved) — here come the "big pharma" money grab. Whether the Vaccines are effective is questionable, given the history: diseases such as measles, rubella, pertussis and scarlet fever, were all declining in numbers before the introduction of vaccines.

Why aren't natural cures ever sought, as was the case with scurvy, which is bought on by a lack of Vitamin C? We all know the answer to that.

Maybe look into why a country like Haiti, African countries (notable exception is S. Africa—site of a large Covid clinical trial), and other exceptional countries DON'T get the virus in significant numbers? Are we even seeing the reportedly significant numbers? During the lockdown—and even now—a lot of other illnesses tended to be attributed to covid, when they are not (follow the money incentives to label illnesses during lockdown as Covid). The other concerns are for the false positives, the covid vaccine causing covid in some instances, and other extenuating factors: People wonder; why are the flu numbers down so much during the flu season? One ironic (sarcastic) reason given —the flu cures covid—seems far fetched.

Interesting historical data revealed by Robert F. Kennedy of Children's Defense Fund—suggests that diseases like measles, scarlet fever, pertussis, and tuberculosis all declined before the introduction of vaccines.

"Thus, vaccination does not account for the impressive declines in mortality seen in the first half of the century."
—CDC Study 2010

"The [flu] vaccine must be changed each year, in hopes of matching the ever-mutating viruses. And that’s been a challenge. On average, it’s been 40% effective, meaning it’s prevented illness 40% of the time."
—WebMD's Debbie Koenig (Sept. 2, 2020)

Go fo yourself a favor, check out the thorough research at Global Cooperative, where they conclude that:
"Vaccines are dangerous poisons that destroy the immune system. This is simply true, based on all actual scientific and medical evidence. There is essentially no notable independent evidence (scientifically, medically, or otherwise) that suggests any valid reason to even occasionally (let alone regularly) inject the poisons known as “vaccines” into the human body. Significant numbers of independent studies (not bought and paid for by Big Pharma) are in agreement that vaccines pose many and significant dangers to health."

Herds are cattle, not people—that's the issue with the—we must "gain herd immunity" mantra. 

It's significant that now we have the beginnings of some "great awakening" in the MSM, but is 60 Minutes featuring some kind of "exposé" of their go to pandemic expert, Fauci? No, they're on the Chinese connection and ignoring any involvement by Fauci's NIH or the U.S. government.

The Hill- Lab-Leak Hypothesis Could Reveal EPIC Screwup Of US, Fauci AND China

Link: https://youtu.be/zbKll37uA5U

We knew about Fauci—Newsweek shocked U.S. with the facts a year ago! His NIH funded "gain-of-function" animal/bat viruses experiments at the Wuhan lab in China; AFTER they were outlawed in the U.S.! Turns out the U.S. was in cahoots with China: they both participate in dangerous experiments that endangered their unsuspecting citizens.

Newsweek: The Controversial Experiments and Wuhan Lab Suspected of Starting the Coronavirus Pandemic

Related: need to mention here that some of the manufacturing work that left the states for China involved work with dangerous chemicals that, when inhaled, touched or breached into the environment, can sicken and kill impoverished working people in these sweat shop factories.

This is the pattern: after they accomplish their great reset (regime change, resource war, gandsta capitalism, false flags...), then they reveal the truth behind their propagandist talking points, global shell game and Matrix hijinx. We all know the MSM is a tool of empire.

The good news: we may see this manufactured #Plandemic end soon- although they've addressed all the issues the oligarchy were looking to address:
- the retail apocalypse
- mechanization with robotic workers—CVS' cashiers are gone! They've rolled out robot driven trucks and cars.
- digital currencies—crypto: bitcoin, tokens, NFTs, app based banking from—not banks.
- normalizing mass vaccination
- massive expansion of government with the partial or complete ownership of failing private businesses
- expanded social programs (it's not all bad)
- legalizing marijuana (outlawed because a man testified to Congress that it drove negroes crazy and made white women want Black men — on God.)
....etc

As noted: there's been an exponential growth of dependence on government programs—a surveillance gold mine. The Great Reset is destined to be a celebrated success in the historical narrative of the "Ministry of Information." There's talk of infrastructure overhaul, flying cars, renewable energy, drone delivery to your door, whitey on the moon, white on mars... etc.

What we lost in the fire will be a footnote, just like the polio scare before it; put simply—the further erosion of our freedoms... we see your vaccine passports —the Neo Prison Industrial Complex.