Covid-19: The Great Reset is written by Klaus Schwab and Theirry Malleret. The book is 280 pages long and was published in July 2020.
This is just an observation, but it’s odd that the book was published around 6 months after Covid was officially declared. It has a list of endnotes that are within a 3 month timeline of the book being published, but we’ll get into that later.
Klaus starts out strong, page 3 he tells us that
“the book’s main objective is to help understand what’s coming in a multitude of domains”. It “contains many conjectures and ideas about what the post-pandemic world might, and perhaps should, look like.”(3)
Should look like?
Why does that sound bad?
It’s clear Klaus has a plan, but why does he suppose that this is something we’d all go along with?
The further we get, let’s see if this is something we can support.
Page 11
Klaus tells us that
“The worldwide crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic has no parallel in modern history”.(11)
I guess it depends on your definition of modern, but the Spanish Flu, in 1918, wiped out between 50-100 million people and infected 500 million worldwide.
The latest numbers for Covid worldwide (July 26) are 576,581,896 Covid cases, 6,405,982 deaths, that’s about a 1% case fatality rate.
The mortality rate is so small as to be insignificant.
The Spanish Flu on the other hand, had a case fatality based on the numbers above, anywhere from 10 - 20%.
On the high-end the Spanish Flu took about 5% of the world population at the time.
Covid, to be blunt, could be considered a rounding error. The numbers are so small, considering there are about 7.9 billion people on the planet.
The thing that has no parallel in modern history is the reaction every government of almost every country had.
In my opinion, it was completely overblown and unnecessary but that point is moot now.
This reaction though is softening up everyone for another pandemic in the coming years, then another one, then another one, then mysteriously there won’t be anymore pandemics of note that require the draconian lockdowns and monitoring of individuals, but I’m getting ahead of myself.
If we look at his response through the globalist lens, it’s clear the response is driving an agenda, and Klaus seems to think people can’t pick up a history book and check the things he says - it doesn’t bode well for this book.
Klaus tells us that because of Covid and our response, we will be
“dealing with its fallout for years, and many things will change forever.”(11)
Those changes are what this book is about because apparently Covid has:
“the fault lines of the world - most notably social divides, lack of fairness, absence of cooperation, failure of global governance and leadership - now lie exposed as never before, and people feel the time for reinvention has come.”(11)
That may or may not be true, but the endgame Klaus tells us is:
“a new world will emerge, the contours of which are for us to both imagine and to draw.”(12)
I guess if you’re one of those people who thinks like a puppet-master, then I guess the answer is yes.
On page 12 Klaus tell us
Covid and our response will create a new normal.
I would say we are seeing it already.
Some people continue to wear masks even when there are no mask mandates. Some countries require people coming into the country to be fully vaccinated, some employers want your vaccine status before employment.
All because of the drive of propaganda that Covid has no parallel in modern history when in actuality it’s nothing close.
Politicians say trust the science which is curious since a march to the technetronic era, is defined by decision makers who have expertise in certain areas.
How many people found out they have a chief public health official who seemed to call the shots and all elected officials deferred to them?
In my mind, the elected officials of any country need to access risk and reward for all policy changes and implementations.
Regarding Covid, everyone said trust the science (that changed continually) yet no one looked at the math and said do we really want to shut down the economy for something that has fewer deaths a year that pneumonia and kills the elderly more than anyone else.
Pneumonia is the leading cause of death of children under five and we don’t even blink an eye.
In Canada, when you look at the numbers you’ll see almost 82% of all Covid deaths were people who were 70 and over and to put the cherry on top,
Almost 70% of all Covid deaths were people in NURSING HOMES!!!.
Take a look at this 11 minute video nothing in it was done in Canada.
I’m sure the same applies everywhere else, and some of the data is disturbing.
So you have to see something else is going on when there is a world-wide coordinated effort to stop something that isn’t that dangerous to the public at large.
Klaus tells us that
“Nothing will ever return to the ‘broken’ sense of normalcy that prevailed prior to the crisis because the coronavirus pandemic marks a fundamental inflection point in our global trajectory.”(12)
Notice how he tells us that our current way of living is broken, as in it needs to be fixed and the “new normal” thanks to Covid is going to fix that.
Isn’t that a roundabout way of saying they are going to change society?
That is exactly what the Communists, ie. Globalists want?
Klaus seems to suggest although the level of hyperbole around covid is huge he is more reticent when he says:
“By itself the pandemic may not completely transform the world, but is likely to accelerate many of the changes that were already taking place before it erupted, which will set in motion other changes.”(13).
Don’t you find it odd that 6 months into the pandemic Klaus already seems to know that the pandemic won’t completely transform the world, when it appears, at least to me when I read this, that is what he wanted?
Was he expecting a higher death count?
More chaos, perhaps?
Did covid not live up to the globalist expectation?
Klaus switches now to a quick history lesson on infectious disease and some things we did back in the day, like quarantine, that comes from the word quaranta, which means 40 in Italian.
Klaus then tells us this was one first forms of:
“Institutionalize public health that helped legitimize the ‘accretion of power’ by the modern state”(14).
Isn’t that much of what’s happened in the last two years?
Then he tells us that a quarantine of 40 days had no medical basis, it was done for symbolic reasons, just like 6 feet social distancing and masking. I’m getting the impression that history is repeating itself, don’t you?
Again, with sage like knowledge tells us:
“Unlike certain past epidemics, COVID-19 doesn’t pose a new existential threat. It will not result in unforeseen mass famines or major military defeats and regime changes. Whole populations will neither be exterminated nor displaced as a result of the pandemic.”(13)
Six months into a pandemic of “no parallel in modern history” and he knows this, yet every government on the planet is acting like 80% of its population is going to be decimated.
How is it Klaus knows this?
If he knows this, then it’s likely government officials knew this as well, and if they do, why did they continue with the mandates?
Apparently, the lethality of covid is really of no concern to him, because it’s just a vehicle to push the globalist agenda which means:
“to begin a elaborating a meaningful response, we need a conceptual-framework…”(13)
Everything that has happened in history like the Spanish Flu, 9/11, SARS in 2003,etc, is not the same as covid because “none fits the reach and pattern of the human suffering and economic destruction caused by the current pandemic. The economic fallout in particular bears no resemblance to any crisis in modern history.”(16).
I would agree, but Klaus very conveniently leaves out one small detail:
all of this is because of the government lock down policies.
In my mind, covid isn’t the problem, the government response to it is, and so does Klaus.
“Even in the worst-case horrendous scenario, COVID-19 will kill far fewer people that the Great Plagues, including the Black Deaths or World War II did.”(17)
So Klaus knows, again six months into a pandemic that covid will kill “far fewer” people.
I’m beginning to wonder if maybe this book was written back in the days of H1N1 of 2009 and wasn’t published because the financial crisis took precedence and no one cared.
This guy is so knowledgeable about the future he should buy a lottery ticket, but apparently because of the interconnectedness and interdependence of the world:
“The impact of the pandemic will go well beyond the (already staggering) statistics relating ‘simply’ to death, unemployment, and bankruptcies.”(17).
I find it strange how on one side covid is the worst thing in modern history and at the same timeKlaustells us it’s really not that bad, then he tells us the statistics are staggering.
All due to government policies, I might add.
It’s clear that Klaus doesn’t care much about the pandemic specifically, but only what it will bring about:
“It is of course too early to tell with any reasonable accuracy what COVID-19 will entail in terms of “momentous” changes, but the objective of this book is of offer some coherent and conceptually sound guidelines about what might lie ahead and to do so in the most comprehensive manner possible”(18)
I suppose this in an of itself it nothing sinister, even benign in some ways.
“At the very least, as we will argue, the pandemic will accelerate systemic changes that were already apparent prior to the crisis: the partial retreat from globalization, the growing decoupling between the US and China, the acceleration of automation, concerns about heightened surveillance, the growing appeal of well-being policies, rising nationalism and the subsequent fear of immigration, the growing power of tech, the necessity for firms to have even stronger online presence among others.”(18)
But when he states:
“You get the point: we should take advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to reimagine our world, in a bid to make it a better and more reslient one as it emerges on the other side of the crisis."(19)
It’s clear Klaus has a vision of the future state and he wants to catapult it forward, using the panedmic as a stepping stone
But why does he think his future is the future any of us want?
When, in his own words he states that:
But our objective was to write a relatively concise and simple book to help the reader understand what’s coming in a multitude of domains."(19)
What's coming?
Am I to understand things are already in motion and we have no alternative?
Perhaps his word choice isn’t well thought out, but I doubt it.
Regardless of what you think of Klaus Schwab, the man is smart and his word choice I am sure is deliberate.
In the end, the book is about what Klaus believes
“…the post-pandemic world might, and perhaps should, look like.”(20)
Should, look like.
That should give every person a moment of pause, because powerful people usually have a way of getting what they want.