Two Canadian authors have expanded their book challenging the legitimacy of political and medical COVID-19 narratives and responses.
Marco Navarro-Genie, founder of the Haultain Research Institute, and University of Calgary political scientist Barry Cooper released their expanded edition of “Canada’s COVID: The Story of a Pandemic Moral Panic.”
During their online book launch, Cooper said “concern for the truth” motivated him to write.
“That was part of it. But the negative version, I think, was probably stronger. I just got sick and tired of listening to the lies, basically, told by some of my very distinguished colleagues in the medical school,” he said.
“They ought to have known better. I knew better from reading the same scientific literature that they had access to and were probably better qualified to evaluate it than I was, but they simply ignored it.”
Navarro-Genie said early comparisons of COVID-19 to the Spanish Flu seemed out of proportion, and motivated him to document a truer picture.
“I don’t really have a great hope that the book is going to be read by every parliamentarian and every premier in the country and change their minds. I am hoping that the book will leave a trail of what took place so that people can can see what happened,” he said at the book launch.
“Presumably, there'll be other epidemics and other pandemics, and some of them will be probably worse than this one. My big concern is, if we do this with something like this one, what are we going to do [then]?”
Cooper also has modest hopes.
‘The Sense That Something is Wrong’
The release came on the one-year anniversary of federal use of the Emergencies Act against the trucker convoy protest in Ottawa. In the book, the authors lament that pandemic policy is no less off-course now than it was in their initial book release.“By November 2020, there was enough known about COVID-19 that it was possible to think that public policy in Canada, the United States and Europe might return to common sense. [Instead] ... the moral panic that seemed inadvertently to have accompanied government policies in the spring of 2020 has become a central and deliberate feature,” the preface reads.
“However, the amount of contrary advice from other experts, starting with the World Health Organization is enormous. ... The real question, then, is: why haven’t they acted on it?”
Cooper and Navarro-Genie say the answer is political and not scientific. In their view, neither politicians nor “so-called experts” who told people to “follow the science” can admit the science is against their approach.
“It would be an implicit admission that the policy which had been in place for over two years was a huge mistake. ... This attitude is ‘scientism.’ It is the very opposite to the attitude of science properly speaking, which is to be open to reality,” the authors wrote.
“The sense that something is wrong has been articulated in the minor or heterodox narrative: lockdowns and masks do not work; the safety and effectiveness of vaccines has been exaggerated; vaxx passports are chiefly a political measure that has enhanced the repressive tendencies of bureaucrats and politicians by scapegoating a minority of citizens. In short, it’s all about power.”
The authors warn the precedent and trajectory of the pandemic response points to the imposition of unnatural and unchallengeable slavery.
“Humans are unpredictable and for that reason alone are uncontrollable. This is why those who seek control also dream of changing human nature in the sense of making humans subhuman,” the book reads in its final pages.
“The next chapter in the orthodox narrative foresees adding to enhanced QR digital passports the replacement of money with crypto currency and perhaps something like China’s ‘social credit’ in order to create a seamless, totally surveilled population, forever safe participants in the internet of biodigital bodies.”
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