Pandemic Gave Rise to Government Surveillance, Abuse of Emergency Powers: Former Medical EthicistCOVID-19 policies such as lockdowns, masking, and vaccine mandates were not just a method to control the outbreak of an infectious disease but were, in reality, a novel paradigm of governance that utilizes a declared state of emergency, said a former medical ethicist.
These policies laid the groundwork for the rise of the biomedical security state, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, former director of the medical ethics program at the University of California–Irvine, said in a recent interview on EpochTV's "Crossroads” program.
Kheriaty, author of the book "The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State," clarifies that the concept of the biomedical security state is the welding together of the militarization of public health and digital technologies of surveillance and control, "backed up by the police powers of the state."...
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