The following is the introduction to Debbie Lerman’s new book, The Deep State Goes Viral: Pandemic Planning and the Covid Coup.
For most of my adult life, I believed pretty much everything I read in the New York Times and heard on NPR. I thought there was a huge difference between Republicans and Democrats, right and left, conservative and liberal. And I was a proud, even self-righteous, liberal leftist Democrat.
Since March 2020, however, with the onset of the Covid lockdowns, all of those comfortable beliefs, and my former sense of belonging to a meaningful political and social movement, have evaporated. I find myself on the outside of the mainstream, attempting to construct a new worldview and find new people and institutions I can trust. One such newfound haven of sanity is Brownstone Institute – publisher of this book, and the website where most of the articles included here first appeared.
I’m lucky to be a pretty panic-proof type of person, so back at the beginning of 2020 I was not afraid. I did not think the virus posed a mortal threat to myself or my family. I knew it affected mostly elderly people with serious ailments. I also knew that there was never a pathogen in recorded history that was so transmissible and so deadly that it required locking down the entire world. And I found no evidence that the Wuhan virus, as it was called at the time, was such a pathogen.
Yet everyone else around me seemed to have completely lost their minds, first and foremost the media and public health experts. Instead of calming the public down and advocating common sense measures, they started screaming about “flattening the curve,” masking, social distancing, and the necessity of depriving children of education and socialization to “protect grandma.” Then they started bulldozing all of society into supporting not just untested and unregulated gene-based vaccines, but also coercive mandates of those vaccines.
It was utter madness. …
I discovered that the US Covid pandemic response was not a public health response run by the HHS, CDC or any other public health body. Instead, it was abiodefense/counter-terrorism response, run by the Pentagon, National Security Council, and Department of Homeland Security.
When I continued to dig, I found that the same pattern was followed in many countries around the world. The pandemic response, according to all available evidence, was implemented according to globally planned and directed protocols.
None of this has been reported in the corporate media, and even in independent media spaces, very few have investigated or reported on these topics.
If you thought the plandemic was something strange and something strange going on, you were right! This was not a health thing, it was a biowarfare thing! All of the measures were biowarfare countermeasures where the defense establishment designs criteria and protocols, lead by the biowarfare agencies and personnel. By the way, Fauci was the head of the NIH but also the head of the biowarfare branch of the military, thus his very high pay rate. He was getting paid for TWO jobs,not just one. Since he and Birx had two masters, they had to follow the orders of one or the other and they chose the military. So, you have heard of the collateral damage problem and and assessments, haven’t you? What information do you think we were getting?