Anthony Fauci and the Creation of the Bio-Security State.
A new populist spirit, represented by Donald Trump, among others, has led to a reshuffling of seemingly settled ideological alliances.
The reshuffling is ongoing.
I know this because I find myself approving of at least parts of “The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health,” the new bestseller book by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
It is odd indeed that I find myself in nodding agreement with an anti-vax, climate warrior named Kennedy, but there you are—or, rather, here we are.
Towards the end of a long and riveting interview with Tucker Carlson about his book, Kennedy reflects on the extraordinary—indeed, “totalitarian” is not too strong a word—government impositions upon individual liberty in the name of battling the COVID pandemic and issues a critical admonition that we forget at our peril.
“We have to love our freedom,” he said, “more than we fear a germ.”
Can we pause for a round of applause?
The risks of COVID to the general population were and are wildly exaggerated.
Everyone knows that now, though not everyone is yet ready to admit it.
‘Safetyism’
But even if the disease was as dangerous as some alarmists at first predicted, Kennedy’s point still stands.
“Even if this was the deadly disease that they say it is,” he told Carlson, “there are worse things than death.”
Indeed, he continued, “We’re lucky that there was a whole generation of Americans in 1776 that said ‘it would be better to die than not have these rights written down.’”
Noting the extraordinary assault on our Constitutional liberties—a phenomenon that has echoes in other democracies around the world—Kennedy asks us to remember the smallpox epidemic that ravaged Washington’s army during the Revolution and the “malaria contagion that culled the Army of Virginia.”
The Founders were well acquainted with “the deadly and disruptive potential of infectious disease epidemics.”
Nevertheless, they included no references to pandemics in the Constitution.
Over the last couple of years, however, “public health” is wheeled out to rationalize “a string of new exceptions to our Constitution. We are given just one rationale to explain everything that is happening: COVID.”
In other words, Kennedy opposes the spirit of “safetyism” that pervades our culture and gives license to the many corporate and government actors who are only too happy to exploit our abhorrence of risk in order to control us.
Kennedy’s book is full of alarming things.


