{"id":65618,"date":"2023-08-07T17:53:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T22:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65618"},"modified":"2023-08-07T17:53:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T22:53:40","slug":"was-the-covid-response-a-coup-by-western-intelligence-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=65618","title":{"rendered":"Was the Covid response a coup by Western intelligence agencies?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Was the Covid response a coup by Western intelligence agencies?<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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On Thursday, friend-of-the-blog Michael P. Senger posted an important essay to Substack, in which he asks whether the \u201cResponse to COVID\u201d was \u201ceffectively a coup by the Western intelligence community<\/a>.\u201d Everyone should read it, as it summarises in one place a range of evidence that Senger and others have collected pointing to the role of the defence and intelligence actors in promoting lockdowns, especially in America.<\/p>\n

Many readers have asked me in sometimes polite and sometimes highly hostile and dismissive ways to comment on these ideas for a long time now. I find this surprising, as I don\u2019t disagree with any of Senger\u2019s specific observations, and I don\u2019t think they\u2019re necessarily in conflict with my own theses of What Happened in 2020. I\u2019ve long held that the bureaucracy succumbed to very radical ideas about how to suppress SARS-2 between February and March 2020, and as the defence and intelligence sectors are part of the institutional apparatus of the government, it\u2019s only logical to think that they should\u2019ve fallen prey to these ideas too. Perhaps it is true, though, that my overall interpretation of events departs somewhat from the Intelligence Coup Thesis. In what follows, I\u2019ll try to explain why.<\/p>\n

Senger and others have surely shown that key members of the American defence establishment were very worried about SARS-2 and willing to follow the lead of China in pandemic policy from the beginning. Their advocacy, however, seems to be of two types. Either it occurs very early but doesn\u2019t seem to be about mass containment specifically, or it occurs rather later and indicates an endorsement of lockdowns around the same time everyone else was endorsing them.<\/p>\n

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Was the Covid response a coup by Western intelligence agencies? On Thursday, friend-of-the-blog Michael P. Senger posted an important essay to Substack, in which he asks whether the \u201cResponse to COVID\u201d was \u201ceffectively a coup by the Western intelligence community.\u201d Everyone should read it, as it summarises in one place a range of evidence that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29341,33189,29428,33898],"class_list":["post-65618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-covid","tag-eugyppius","tag-lockdowns","tag-western-intelligence-agencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65619,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65618\/revisions\/65619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}