On the six-year anniversary of Covid lockdowns, the International Energy Agency has released a full plan for global rationing. It involves stay-at-home orders, edicts against driving alone or on days in which you are not permitted, and only essential commercial road traffic. The report also criticizes cooking with natural gas, as if your stove-top souffle has any impact on global energy consumption.
Who cares, right? That’s what people said when six years ago, the World Health Organization declared a pandemic and then said that China was right to use blowtorches to weld people inside their homes and ban all nonessential travel. Most nations in the world tried some version of that, under the WHO’s influence. Everyone caught the virus anyway and we are left with the carnage.
Aspects of the present moment echo that experience. We sincerely hope that you did not get trapped at the airport this weekend with security lines stretching to parking lots and wait times of 3 hours. This helps accomplish one of the IEA goals: limit commercial airline traffic for passengers. Indeed, many people saw the mess and got in their cars and drove home.
If IEA gets its way, you might not be able to drive at all on days in which you are not permissioned. Many nations of the world are already adopting some version of these policies, restricting travel, rationing gas, limiting work hours, and controlling indoor temperatures.
Such measures are less likely in the US today, perhaps, but we cannot know for sure. It’s just remarkable that we are still on this strange trajectory to the Great Reset (not a myth but a book title as published by the World Economic Forum). As for the Covid lockdowns, it so happens that the Washington Post just published an elaborate defense of them.
Meanwhile, last week, two federal district judges ruled against reforms at the CDC and HHS. An Oregon judge said that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. cannot restrict tax-funded gender transitions. A Massachusetts judge vetoed a year of reforms from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. The CDC reverted the childhood schedule to what it was a year ago. Both decisions will surely be overturned but that takes time.
The point of all of this is not to get depressed or demoralized but just the opposite. This struggle was never going to be easy. What we need now is moral courage, strategic intelligence, and redoubled commitments to higher ideals. Take a moment to sign CovidJustice.org, for example.
Brownstone Institute faces new demands to adopt and support cancelled scientists – yes that still happens daily. And with the new threat of energy lockdowns, we need our local communities more than ever. Please come to a supper club and make friends.
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