The crisis of Covid is that the fundamental basis of our economy shifted from a positive-sum game to the worst negative-sum game in human history.

So what do I mean by that and what are the implications of that?

Let’s start by defining some terms. Economists love to talk about games as a way of modeling the different choices we face and the decisions we make as individuals and as a society.

As I imagine you know, in a positive-sum game the total gains of the participants are greater than the total losses.

This is what Adam Smith marveled about in The Wealth of Nations. The butcher, the baker, and the brewer buy goods and services from each other and everyone is better off than they would have been in the absence of this exchange. The synergies that come from the free exchange of goods and ideas are the essence of liberalism.

As we discussed previously, the Scottish economy in the 18th century when Smith was writing was fueled by the great wealth generated from slave-grown tobacco. So obviously the slaves kidnapped from Africa and transported to the New World did not experience a positive-sum game.

Then there are zero-sum games. In a zero-sum game, the gains of one participant are exactly balanced by the losses of another participant.

Gambling and sports are classic examples of zero-sum games.

Mafia-style economies can also be viewed as zero-sum games. Some people do well at the expense of others. Profits come from power and control rather than innovation. It’s a lousy way to run an economy.

Then there are negative-sum games.

In a negative-sum game, the total losses of the participants exceed the total gains.

Wars are often cited as negative-sum games. The resources expended in terms of lives lost, destruction of infrastructure, and economic impact outweigh any potential gains. …

Bobby’s thesis is that the U.S. has a massive biowarfare program going back to World War I.

After World War II the U.S. recruited the top Nazi and Japanese biowarfare scientists to expand our program.

When the Cold War ended we recruited the top Russian biowarfare scientists to join the U.S. program and our biowarfare program kept growing in spite of the absence of any viable foreign adversaries.

Now there is a new class in society: 13,000 psychopaths who work at over 400 U.S. biowarfare labs. …

This is our economy now. The tentacles of the biowarfare industrial complex reach into nearly all sectors of the economy. So Bobby’s book is consistent with what I said earlier but the situation as he describes it is so much worse.

Our economic system now is the opposite of liberalism. It’s the fulfillment of the dreams of the Third Reich. With CRISPR, the biowarfare industry can infinitely change the DNA and RNA of humans and viruses. They’re bad at it right now. But the temptation is too great, they will never stop playing God.

Why hasn’t big business pushed back against this? Companies including Walmart, Apple, Ford, and Nike have a lot to lose from this widespread destruction of American society. My hunch is that it’s because the biowarfare industry has captured capital itself. Pandemics, chronic disease, and response is a growth industry — one of the only growth industries on Earth at this point. DNA is the new terra nullius to be conquered and colonized.

So first it was the childhood schedule, then Covid, and now the plan is for new pandemics as far as the eye can see.

That’s the system that we are fighting to overthrow.