Protecting the Pandemic from the People: Perpetual Panic, Permanent Emergency
Protecting the Pandemic from the People: Perpetual Panic, Permanent Emergency Maximilian C. Forte There are some suggestions that the Omicron variant could well end “the pandemic”. And that is a problem. It is a problem on two fronts. First, a variant that not only defeats the “vaccines,” but that also reduces the pandemic to a minor endemic phenomenon, is not one that can be exploited to generate profits for a transnational pharmaceutical giant like Pfizer, which has effectively captured the Canadian market and enjoys a near monopoly, plus a free sales-force (consisting of politicians, civil servants, academics, journalists, and many others). Second, any scaling down of illness removes the thin cover used by the state to centralize and maximize political power, under the pretext of an endless “state of emergency”. First, what do we know about Omicron ? Medical authorities in South Africa have already explained , and emphasized repeatedly , that ...