Who Benefitted From This Chaos?

Two years ago on this day, I posted a piece that was very hard to write. It concerned precisely who was benefiting from the lockdowns, masking, and all that was associated with it, including school and business closures and travel restrictions....

Let’s just go through the list of beneficiaries I first compiled two years ago.

1. The tech companies...

2. The pharmaceutical companies with hundreds of billions of investment in labs and distribution circles that wanted to ply their wares in the midst of emergencies, in addition to the PCR testing industry, not to mention mask and ventilator makers and so many other grifting companies in this space....

3. Public health intellectuals...

4. The mega-billionaire Bill Gates found himself vexed by computer viruses that were wrecking his Windows operating system and thereby developed a passion for blocking viruses in general, while failing to understand the difference between biology and computer hardware....

5. Government officials certainly had a field day trying out new uses of power....

6. Media companies...

7. The Chinese government, which was supremely annoyed at the Trump administration’s trade policies, successfully trolled the West into believing that China nixed the virus through totalitarian controls....

8. Rabid opponents of the Trump administration, who had failed to wreck it through accusations of Russian collusion and then impeachment over a phone call to Ukraine....

9. School teachers’ unions...

10. A ruling-class population...

The world is overflowing these days with people who are consumed by ideology.... The pandemic was for them something exciting and momentous: it presented a chance for a Great Reset....