We guess 4 billion people have been jabbed but don’t know. We guess the ingredients of the jabs and don’t know with TEM technology whereof we see. A great reset indeed of Homo. Sapiens and we guess a Transhuman outcome but what we see before our nose we do not know for in it’s elegant simplicity only the Gordian knot before our epoch could represent the total complexity of the past three years. We see as we are and we are logical people in the main because human Existence is complex and fearful and motile and strange and filled with wonder and horror and logic is an instinctive tool. However, logic is emotional reason as we are emotional beings. More primal than thought upon experience is experience, the encounter. In the year of 2022 CE we encounter Weird Tales and August Derleth and H.P. Lovecraft in new form and our emotional reason howls betrayed by life itself as given to us like the bird in the drinking hall flying in to the situation unfolding creating a new one then flying away. Agamben has been roundly attacked for being right on the Pandemic. He invites discussion and comes close to becoming a post-modern Gorgon freezing all into stone with his gaze. MANKIND for Agamben resides inside the State of Exception. This in turn is only checked by Stasis. Absent a politics envisioning feeding the tree of Liberty with blood we see Cthulu coming alive….
https://brownstone.org/articles/covid-exposed-the-medical-pharmaceutical-government-complex/.
By 2020, America devoted 18% of its GDP to medicine. (By comparison, about 5% goes to the military). Adding the mega-costs of mass testing and vaccines etc., medical expenditures might now approach 20%. Although the US spends more than twice per capita what any other nation spends on medical care, American ranks 46th in life expectancy. US life expectancy has flatlined, despite growing medical spending and broadened medical access via the vaunted Affordable Care Act.
Though medicine’s high-cost and relatively low yield are right in front of anyone who thinks about their medical experiences and those of people they know, most never connect the dots; more medical treatments and spending are continually advocated and applauded. There’s a regressive “if it saves—or even slightly extends—one life” medical zeitgeist/ethic.
As most medical insurance is employer-based, most people don’t notice annual premium increases. Nor do they see the growing slice of tax revenues used to subsidize Med/Pharma. Thus, they continually demand more stuff, like IVF, extremely high-cost drugs, sex changes or psychotherapy, as if these were their right, and free. To say nothing of these treatments’ limited effectiveness.
As all are required to medically insure and to pay taxes, one can’t simply opt out or buy only those medical services that one thinks justify their costs. With massive, guaranteed funding sources, aggregate medical revenues will continue to climb.
Thus, Medical-Industrial-Government Complex has become a Black Hole for today’s wealth. With great money comes great power. The Med/Pharma juggernaut rules the airwaves. Nonexistent until the 1990s, hospital System and drug ads now dominate advertising. By being such big advertisers, Med/Pharma dictates news content. Analysts who point out that lavish medical expenditures don’t yield commensurate public health benefit have small audiences. Med/Pharma critics can’t afford ads.