Steps to Unconcealed Totalitarianism

Israelis protest vaccine passports, February 24, 2021

1. Tell the nation that it is under attack, and that anyone who downplays or disputes the threat is putting everyone at risk. According to Hermann Göring, from Gustave Gilbert’s The Nuremberg Diary “the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”

2. Scapegoat a minority of the population for all the country’s problems.

Left – Russian: “Jews, like rats, devour the wealth of your people”
Center – German: “Who is to blame for the war?”

3. Vilify that minority, calling them dirty, and say they are corrupting the “pure body” of the people and hence need to be removed.

Left – Polish: “Jews are lice; they cause typhus”
Center and right – those not taking government-approved precautions are called rat-lickers and CovIdiots. Unvaccinated people are likened to plague rats.

4. Start banning the minority from cafes, bars, gyms, concerts, theatres, etc.

Left – a 1942 law from Vichy France bans Jews from public establishments and events
Right – The government of Québec mandates vaccine passports to access public establishments and events

5. Give everyone else little cards proving that they are not from the minority.

Left – A card from Vichy France certifying that the holder is not Jewish
Right – A European digital COVID passport certifying that the holder is vaccinated

6. Public antipathy increases towards the minority, possibly resulting in violence or the confiscation of property.

7. The minority is physically removed from society, whether by deportation, incarceration, or lethal force.

Some have said that the comparison of vaccine passport initiatives to fascism during the Second World War is not apt. They would be hard pressed, then, to explain the striking similarity both in the kind of propaganda employed, and the chronological progression thereof. Nazi Germany is characterized in the contemporary imagination by the presence of concentration camps holding many persecuted groups, including Jews, Slavs, and homosexuals. The fact that unvaccinated individuals have not yet been forcibly incarcerated does not mean that the comparison is invalidated, as there was a lengthy historical progression preceding the establishment of the concentration camps. During WWII the Nazi regime progressed all the way to step 7. As of late August, 2021, France has progressed to step 5, with other places like Quebec, British Columbia, and New York set to follow suit. While it is true that the appellation “fascist” has been greatly overused in the past decade, this should not deter justified comparisons.

Vaccine passports are a kind of social credit system that allows only those who are obedient to the government to participate in society. Unlike China’s Sesame Credit system they are binary, 0 or 1: either you have followed government diktats and are allowed to participate in the economy, or you are not. They do, however, normalize compliance-based exclusion from society, and could be expanded on later to involve degrees and gradations of access to locations and services. Perhaps in the future those who have received two vaccine doses but no boosters will be barred from certain “high risk” locales and employments but not others.

Mandatory vaccination to be able to sustain employment or access facilities deemed “non-essential” (which are, in reality, completely essential to living a complete and fulfilling life) is coercion and a violation of bodily autonomy. Dissenters are given two pernicious options: either sacrifice your bodily autonomy and submit to arbitrary recurring injections, or lose access to all cultural, social, and vocational institutions. Either your body is effectively owned by the government, or you lose the ability to put food on the table. It is not a choice, it is coercion, and it is evil.

This type of coercion is only possible once a majority of the population has been vaccinated – that is, those who remain unvaccinated constitute a minority. In France, the Pass Sanitaire was mandated for cultural and leisure venues starting July 21; when the announcement was made on July 12, 53.7% of Frenchmen had been vaccinated. In New York City, the city will be enforcing vaccine passports starting on September 13; when the announcement was made on August 3, 63.4% of the population had received at least one vaccination. In British Columbia vaccine passports will also be required starting September 13; when the announcement was made on August 23, 75% of BC residents had received one vaccination.

It is hoped by those pushing the vaccines that by gradually increasing the pressure on the unvaccinated, all those who are not committed to outright refusing the vaccine will eventually get it. By exploiting the foot-in-the-door technique, those who have received vaccinations already can be more easily convinced to receive additional booster shots. This will leave a core of people who unconditionally refuse the vaccine, and the overlap between this group and those who are aware of or would be opposed to the World Economic Forum’s Great Reset initiative is likely to be quite high. The result will be a split in society between two groups of people: those who can be convinced to receive mandated yearly (or more frequent) vaccinations, and those who refuse, and are no longer permitted to participate in society. In this way the largest roadblock to the implementation of the 4th industrial revolution – those citizens who would not go along with the wholescale remodeling of society – are effectively neutralized.

In this case it is doubtful that vaccine refusers will ever be rounded up en masse and sent to FEMA camps, as has been theorized. Instead they will be incrementally marginalized and forced into criminality in order to survive, due to the dwindling number of legal opportunities, at which point they can be incarcerated and removed from society. That is how social credit systems work, and no gulags are required.

(1) https://www.gouvernement.fr/pass-sanitaire-toutes-les-reponses-a-vos-questions
(2) https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2021HLTH0053-001659

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