Permanent Pandemic – ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY

Containment and Expropriation: Lockdowns, Public Health, and the Scrap Iron Industry in Trinidad & Tobago

Beginning in July of 2022 a series of articles here and on Disaster X have been examining and questioning what it means to declare crime a “public health emergency”. The case is that of Trinidad & Tobago, which is being used as a lab experiment by US agencies. This is relevant to important new research […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Costa Rica: Democracy Takes a Stand Against the Vax Junta

Rodrigo Chaves, the central protagonist in this drama, has been cast by Costa Rican media as a renegade. One paper spoke of how he “shook the country by eliminating the mandatory use of the mask and incidentally, questioning the demand for vaccination against COVID-19”. Immediately accused of “populism” by the media (because being for the […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Declaring Crime to be a Public Health Emergency: Trinidad & Tobago Out Front

When it should be that the declaration of a public health emergency is itself the crime. “There are efforts being made to ensure that countries respond in the way that we are responding here in Trinidad & Tobago….We are a bit out front on it”. These were the words of Dr. Keith Rowley, the Prime […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

The Work of Factions and the Pandemic’s Political Collapse

We are now facing a regime that is losing, is aware that it is losing, and wants at all costs to survive even if it means damning everyone else. That is the picture that we get, in bold strokes. In practice, there may be considerable divisions and emergent factionalism within the pandemicist regime. By pandemicism […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Introducing: “Disaster X”

Disaster X is a new publication, that is tied to this site: it is available on Substack. Here I just want to briefly introduce the material that already is there, and which will appear there. I have extracted this text from the “About” page: “There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody […]

by Maximilian C. Forte

Protecting the Pandemic from the People: Perpetual Panic, Permanent Emergency

There are some suggestions that the Omicron variant could well end “the pandemic”. And that is a problem. It is a problem on two fronts. First, a variant that not only defeats the “vaccines,” but that also reduces the pandemic to a minor endemic phenomenon, is not one that can be exploited to generate profits for […]