The State of Emergency, Coercive Medicine, and Academia
The State of Emergency, Coercive Medicine, and Academia by Maximilian C. Forte "Two weeks to flatten the curve,” is what we heard across Canada 1 just after March 11, 2020, when the World Health Organization unilaterally declared a global “pandemic” according to new criteria developed in 2009 that emphasized transmissibility over lethality. 2 We are now approaching two years of a crisis that is routinely and deceptively blamed on “Covid”. Politicians, public health officials, and the mass media have made persistent pronouncements that tended towards the inflation of grim numbers and the exaggeration of threats. 3 The State of Emergency and its Consequences Building on expanded threat perception, authorities have deliberately promoted fear, induced panic, and created stress. 4 With the public suffering an epidemic of fear bordering on mass psychosis, 5 states have multiplied and escalated the number and types of restrictions, few of which have the supp...