{"id":29397,"date":"2020-09-06T11:51:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T01:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29397"},"modified":"2020-09-06T11:51:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T01:51:18","slug":"medical-technocracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29397","title":{"rendered":"Medical Technocracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"920\" height=\"515\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Medical_Technocracy.jpg\" alt=\"Medi9cal Technocracy\" class=\"wp-image-29399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Medical_Technocracy.jpg 920w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Medical_Technocracy-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Medical_Technocracy-768x430.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Doctors for Disaster Preparedness1 lecture above, given August 16, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada, features Dr. Lee Merritt, an orthopedic spinal surgeon with a medical practice in Logan, Iowa.2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her presentation, she discusses how geopolitical power can be swayed in the absence of an identifiable army or declared war. She talks about the cognitive dissonance we\u2019re currently facing, when what we\u2019re told no longer corresponds with known facts or logical thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And she reviews how medical technocrats \u2014 the so-called medical experts and political leaders who have turned the world upside-down in response to COVID-19 \u2014 have been 100% wrong about everything they\u2019ve been telling us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They\u2019ve been wrong about the initial risk assessment, testing, preventive measures, mask wearing and social distancing. They\u2019ve conflated \u201ccases\u201d or positive tests with the actual illness. They\u2019re also guilty of errors of omission \u2014 not telling us what medical doctors and scientists know to be helpful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI can give you the benefit of the doubt when you\u2019re wrong about one or two things, but when you\u2019re wrong 100% of the time, consistently, that is not by accident,\u201d Merritt says. \u201cThey should have come up with something that was in our best interest if they really cared about us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rise of Technocracy<br>\nMerritt credits her understanding of technocracy to reading Patrick Wood\u2019s book, \u201cTechnocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation.\u201d Wood is also the editor in chief of Technocracy News &amp; Trends. I recently interviewed Wood. His interview is featured in \u201cThe Pressing Dangers of Technocracy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As explained by Wood and Merritt, technocracy is an economic ideology built around totalitarian rule by unelected leaders. It got its start in the 1930s during the height of the Great Depression, when scientists and engineers got together to solve the nation\u2019s economic problems. At the time, it looked like capitalism and free enterprise were going to die, so they decided to invent a new economic system from scratch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They called this system \u201ctechnocracy.\u201d The word comes from the word \u201ctechn,\u201d which means \u201cskill,\u201d and the god \u201cKratos,\u201d which is the divine personification of power. As explained by Merritt, a technocrat is someone who exercises power over you on the basis of their knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2020\/09\/05\/medical-technocracy.aspx\">https:\/\/articles.mercola.com\/sites\/articles\/archive\/2020\/09\/05\/medical-technocracy.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"745\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/COVID-19_Death_Rate_20200905.jpg\" alt=\"COVID-19 Death Rate\" class=\"wp-image-29398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/COVID-19_Death_Rate_20200905.jpg 745w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/COVID-19_Death_Rate_20200905-300x87.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Doctors for Disaster Preparedness1 lecture above, given August 16, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada, features Dr. Lee Merritt, an orthopedic spinal surgeon with a medical practice in Logan, Iowa.2 In her presentation, she discusses how geopolitical power can be swayed in the absence of an identifiable army or declared war. She talks about the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=29397\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Medical Technocracy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29400,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29397\/revisions\/29400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}