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New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State
The coronavirus pandemic conferred enormous power on certain government officials. They have no intention of giving it up.
In the space of a few weeks in early 2020, Americans witnessed the imposition of previously unimagined social controls by the biomedical security state—the unelected technocrats who suddenly enjoyed nearly absolute power to incarcerate, isolate, and medicate the entire population. In this chilling new book, a dissident scientist reveals
When covid-19 broke out, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty’s work put him on the front lines. Realizing that the mental, physical, and economic toll of lockdowns was catastrophic, he began to protest that the cure was worse than the disease—an intolerable heresy. When he refused vaccination because he had natural immunity from a previous infection, the University of California, Irvine, medical school fired him. He fought back, in the courts and in the media, and has become a reliable source of truth amid official obfuscation and censorship.
Now it’s time for all of us to fight back. The deadly and arrogant misrule of the biomedical security state must not become the "new normal."
In the space of a few weeks in early 2020, Americans witnessed the imposition of previously unimagined social controls by the biomedical security state—the unelected technocrats who suddenly enjoyed nearly absolute power to incarcerate, isolate, and medicate the entire population. In this chilling new book, a dissident scientist reveals
When covid-19 broke out, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty’s work put him on the front lines. Realizing that the mental, physical, and economic toll of lockdowns was catastrophic, he began to protest that the cure was worse than the disease—an intolerable heresy. When he refused vaccination because he had natural immunity from a previous infection, the University of California, Irvine, medical school fired him. He fought back, in the courts and in the media, and has become a reliable source of truth amid official obfuscation and censorship.
Now it’s time for all of us to fight back. The deadly and arrogant misrule of the biomedical security state must not become the "new normal."
304 pages, Hardcover
Published November 1, 2022
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Aaron Kheriaty
9 books26 followersAaron Kheriaty, MD.
Graduate of the University of Notre Dame (philosophy and pre-medical sciences) and Georgetown University where he earned his MD degree.
Founding director of the Psychiatry and Spirituality Forum at the University of California, Irvine. Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Program in Medical Ethics at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine. He serves as chairman of the clinical ethics committee at UCI Irvine Medical Center.
Graduate of the University of Notre Dame (philosophy and pre-medical sciences) and Georgetown University where he earned his MD degree.
Founding director of the Psychiatry and Spirituality Forum at the University of California, Irvine. Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Program in Medical Ethics at the University of California Irvine School of Medicine. He serves as chairman of the clinical ethics committee at UCI Irvine Medical Center.
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November 3, 2022
A helpful warning.
Thoroughly reseached. Extensive references to scientific studies that document the premise. Hard to read but important to avoid losing our freedoms.
Thoroughly reseached. Extensive references to scientific studies that document the premise. Hard to read but important to avoid losing our freedoms.
February 20, 2023
-Dr. Kheriaty has written a book that is a vital addition to the reading list of every citizen of the United States. Known for his battles against the COVID 19 Vaccine mandates, he takes us back into history and covers how emergency powers given to leaders have been both abused, and held in check. He relates how these powers that our own government and governments around the world have taken as a result of a health pandemic, powers which those leaders are reluctant to relinquish, are leading us into a police state, similar to what we’re seeing in Communist China.
-He begins by examining the rise of Germany, in the 1930’s, when Hitler took command. Within the Constitution of the Weimar Republic was the provision for emergency powers to be given to the leaders under special circumstances. Hitler took advantage of that, and like our own political leaders, had repeatedly extended the declaration of an emergency, throughout his leadership. Under Hitler, the Germans embarked on a program to rid the nation of “undesirables” and first arranged to euthanize the elderly and infirm and only after no world outcry resulted, he then turned to mass extermination of the Jews. But to better understand how the German doctors and populace accepted this so readily, Kheriaty takes us back a little further to the eugenics movement of the 19th century, started by Sir Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin. For Galton, natural selection yielded the “survival of the fittest”, but Galton felt that we, as a society, could push this along, by killing those who “society” felt was not advancing the human race. The movement gained great traction and, to our shame “The legalized practice of state-controlled breeding started in the United States. Beginning in 1907 and continuing until the 1970s, most states passed laws permitting the involuntary sterilization of those deemed “unfit” to reproduce.”
-Doctors had previously looked to heal the individual, but this new thinking permitted the German health organization to think differently. “German physicians were encouraged to be responsible for the health of the entire “social organism” - the Volk, the people as a whole… If a social organism was construed as healthy or sick, some individuals were characterized as cancers on the volk. And what do doctors do with cancers? They remove and eliminate them to preserve the health of the whole organism.”
-After the Nuremberg trials, and the establishment of the Nuremberg Code in 1947, the US adopted, under the US Code of Federal Regulations, the law governing human subject research to ensure that before a medication could be given, informed consent was a prerequisite. But emergency powers seemed to do away with informed consent (though I’ve since discovered that there are Federal regulations that state that informed consent is not lost, even in the case of an emergency.)
-These emergency powers have led the Canadian government under Trudeau to freeze the bank accounts of those participating in the protest known as the trucker convoy, and to freeze the accounts of even those who contributed to them. In the US, doctors have been threatened with the loss of their licenses if they go against the narrative, not because what they’re saying is true, but because they are “undermining the public trust in the US government (and they) should be considered “domestic terrorist” threats… Note that Homeland Security characterized claims as false or misleading not when they contradict empirical evidence or scientific findings, but when they “undermine public trust in US government institutions.””
-The vehicle that the government now uses to get many people on board, is by playing on their desire to protect others which requires proof of altruism, “visible signs like masks and obedience to stay-at-home-orders, or publicly available proofs like vaccine passports.”
-Because of our technology, we can now track people, not only with cameras on the street, but through the use of our phones. Unknown to us, this has already been done by the CDC during the pandemic, “to see if Americans followed CDC lockdown orders.” In the airports, we see that a new system called CLEAR is being pushed. Besides being able to maintain a database of individuals who sign up, the capability to record health and vaccine records are also built into the system. We are setting ourselves up voluntarily to be controlled by a police state, in return for saving a few minutes on an airport inspection line.
-The goal of these orders, though, is not for the benefit of the health of the population at large. Just prior to the pandemic, simulated war games were conducted, which, coincidentally, exactly foretold what would happen with the pandemic just a few months later. Robert F Kennedy, Jr pointed out that “None of them (government actions to be used to handle a pandemic) emphasized protecting public health by showing Americans how to bolster their immune system, to eat well, to lose weight, to exercise, to maintain vitamin D levels, and to avoid chemical exposure.” All of the actions focused on crowd control, censorship to silence dissent, the imposition of martial law, and how to control messaging through the use of propaganda.
-Kheriaty goes on to explain his own encounter with authorities and what’s happening in the universities; his own battle to have natural immunity recognized, which is an undisputed fact of medical science until the government leaders ignored it. In addition, an explanation of COVID itself is presented, along with explaining why mandating masks is an exercise in folly.
-There are many ways that the authorities disparage those who fight against their policies, and language is a very important tool. “Social distancing”; anti-vax (oddly, those with vaccine injuries are called anti-vax, but the author points out that they can’t be anti vax if they took the vaccine willingly); and conspiracy theorist.
-His section on the WEF, and private public partnerships; as well as the interconnected relationship between the members of the FDA/ CDC and big pharma, are illuminating and must be recognized for the potential dangers they present to all citizens.
-The future technology of biometric control (implanting devices in the body; the use of iris scan and facial recognition; and digital currency) are all explained as being of benefit on one hand, but that benefit is greatly overshadowed by the extreme danger to the freedom of us all when they’re abused, which Kheriaty explains in detail.
-All is not lost, however, and solutions are presented to us which will take effort, but we are reminded that we cannot lose hope and must continue to struggle. His specialty is medical ethics and he pointed out that he felt compelled to fight against the disregard of medical ethics by those in power in order to be true to himself.
-I have only scratched the surface of this extremely powerful book. There is so much more that is covered, and in such a well explained fashion. He ends as a call to everyone who cherishes their freedom, to resist the oppression which is being forced on us, though we may lose a lot along the way, in terms of friendships, or jobs. “There’s nothing better than living your life in such a way that you can tell your children or your grandchildren, your nieces or nephews-the next generation-that when this thing was being rolled out, I tried to stand up against it.”
-He begins by examining the rise of Germany, in the 1930’s, when Hitler took command. Within the Constitution of the Weimar Republic was the provision for emergency powers to be given to the leaders under special circumstances. Hitler took advantage of that, and like our own political leaders, had repeatedly extended the declaration of an emergency, throughout his leadership. Under Hitler, the Germans embarked on a program to rid the nation of “undesirables” and first arranged to euthanize the elderly and infirm and only after no world outcry resulted, he then turned to mass extermination of the Jews. But to better understand how the German doctors and populace accepted this so readily, Kheriaty takes us back a little further to the eugenics movement of the 19th century, started by Sir Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin. For Galton, natural selection yielded the “survival of the fittest”, but Galton felt that we, as a society, could push this along, by killing those who “society” felt was not advancing the human race. The movement gained great traction and, to our shame “The legalized practice of state-controlled breeding started in the United States. Beginning in 1907 and continuing until the 1970s, most states passed laws permitting the involuntary sterilization of those deemed “unfit” to reproduce.”
-Doctors had previously looked to heal the individual, but this new thinking permitted the German health organization to think differently. “German physicians were encouraged to be responsible for the health of the entire “social organism” - the Volk, the people as a whole… If a social organism was construed as healthy or sick, some individuals were characterized as cancers on the volk. And what do doctors do with cancers? They remove and eliminate them to preserve the health of the whole organism.”
-After the Nuremberg trials, and the establishment of the Nuremberg Code in 1947, the US adopted, under the US Code of Federal Regulations, the law governing human subject research to ensure that before a medication could be given, informed consent was a prerequisite. But emergency powers seemed to do away with informed consent (though I’ve since discovered that there are Federal regulations that state that informed consent is not lost, even in the case of an emergency.)
-These emergency powers have led the Canadian government under Trudeau to freeze the bank accounts of those participating in the protest known as the trucker convoy, and to freeze the accounts of even those who contributed to them. In the US, doctors have been threatened with the loss of their licenses if they go against the narrative, not because what they’re saying is true, but because they are “undermining the public trust in the US government (and they) should be considered “domestic terrorist” threats… Note that Homeland Security characterized claims as false or misleading not when they contradict empirical evidence or scientific findings, but when they “undermine public trust in US government institutions.””
-The vehicle that the government now uses to get many people on board, is by playing on their desire to protect others which requires proof of altruism, “visible signs like masks and obedience to stay-at-home-orders, or publicly available proofs like vaccine passports.”
-Because of our technology, we can now track people, not only with cameras on the street, but through the use of our phones. Unknown to us, this has already been done by the CDC during the pandemic, “to see if Americans followed CDC lockdown orders.” In the airports, we see that a new system called CLEAR is being pushed. Besides being able to maintain a database of individuals who sign up, the capability to record health and vaccine records are also built into the system. We are setting ourselves up voluntarily to be controlled by a police state, in return for saving a few minutes on an airport inspection line.
-The goal of these orders, though, is not for the benefit of the health of the population at large. Just prior to the pandemic, simulated war games were conducted, which, coincidentally, exactly foretold what would happen with the pandemic just a few months later. Robert F Kennedy, Jr pointed out that “None of them (government actions to be used to handle a pandemic) emphasized protecting public health by showing Americans how to bolster their immune system, to eat well, to lose weight, to exercise, to maintain vitamin D levels, and to avoid chemical exposure.” All of the actions focused on crowd control, censorship to silence dissent, the imposition of martial law, and how to control messaging through the use of propaganda.
-Kheriaty goes on to explain his own encounter with authorities and what’s happening in the universities; his own battle to have natural immunity recognized, which is an undisputed fact of medical science until the government leaders ignored it. In addition, an explanation of COVID itself is presented, along with explaining why mandating masks is an exercise in folly.
-There are many ways that the authorities disparage those who fight against their policies, and language is a very important tool. “Social distancing”; anti-vax (oddly, those with vaccine injuries are called anti-vax, but the author points out that they can’t be anti vax if they took the vaccine willingly); and conspiracy theorist.
-His section on the WEF, and private public partnerships; as well as the interconnected relationship between the members of the FDA/ CDC and big pharma, are illuminating and must be recognized for the potential dangers they present to all citizens.
-The future technology of biometric control (implanting devices in the body; the use of iris scan and facial recognition; and digital currency) are all explained as being of benefit on one hand, but that benefit is greatly overshadowed by the extreme danger to the freedom of us all when they’re abused, which Kheriaty explains in detail.
-All is not lost, however, and solutions are presented to us which will take effort, but we are reminded that we cannot lose hope and must continue to struggle. His specialty is medical ethics and he pointed out that he felt compelled to fight against the disregard of medical ethics by those in power in order to be true to himself.
-I have only scratched the surface of this extremely powerful book. There is so much more that is covered, and in such a well explained fashion. He ends as a call to everyone who cherishes their freedom, to resist the oppression which is being forced on us, though we may lose a lot along the way, in terms of friendships, or jobs. “There’s nothing better than living your life in such a way that you can tell your children or your grandchildren, your nieces or nephews-the next generation-that when this thing was being rolled out, I tried to stand up against it.”
February 9, 2023
This book not only educates but informs its readers of the real state of the biomedical security state And our only hope to stop their plans for us... Action, Dissent and Civil Disobedience! The book did an overall solid job of explaining how we've already created the biomedical security state and how he was personally involved in attempting to thwart that operation, with many personal loses due to his ethics. Considering he was the Director of Ethic as UC Irving Medical, the author knows ethics. And, BTW, in-case you Still don't know, what They All did with the Covid-19 pandemic Was Not Ethical. Everyone needs to read this book and Do Something to make certain they can't repeat Covid-19.
December 18, 2022
This is an important read and a warning to all of us. Dr. Kheriaty recounts the failed public health response of the last three years with clarity and accuracy. He places the story in a historical and philosophical context, as well as personalizing it with his own journey.
He was a well respected Ethics Professor at a University of California medial school. He had acquired and recovered from covid and therefore found it unnecessary to receive the experimental gene therapy. Because he spoke out about this issue, particularly the fact that it was unreasonable and unethical to mandate a medical treatment for anyone, let alone someone with natural immunity. For this, he was fired and went on to become one of the leaders in the movement for medical freedom.
He makes it quite clear that the covid restrictions were never about our health. There was no justification for masks, lockdowns, or social distancing and yet these measures were forced on a population and were not in any way successful. These measures were just a rehearsal for more loss of freedom to come if we as a citizens do not push back. We are at risk of losing our freedom of speech, our medical freedom, our freedom to spend money on whatever we want and our complete freedom to privacy as the government increases its surveillance of all of our activities.
The epilogue of the book details what a near future Seattle might look like and it is not a pretty picture.
He exhorts us to take heart, all is not yet lost. We must all have courage to speak up and speak out.
He was a well respected Ethics Professor at a University of California medial school. He had acquired and recovered from covid and therefore found it unnecessary to receive the experimental gene therapy. Because he spoke out about this issue, particularly the fact that it was unreasonable and unethical to mandate a medical treatment for anyone, let alone someone with natural immunity. For this, he was fired and went on to become one of the leaders in the movement for medical freedom.
He makes it quite clear that the covid restrictions were never about our health. There was no justification for masks, lockdowns, or social distancing and yet these measures were forced on a population and were not in any way successful. These measures were just a rehearsal for more loss of freedom to come if we as a citizens do not push back. We are at risk of losing our freedom of speech, our medical freedom, our freedom to spend money on whatever we want and our complete freedom to privacy as the government increases its surveillance of all of our activities.
The epilogue of the book details what a near future Seattle might look like and it is not a pretty picture.
He exhorts us to take heart, all is not yet lost. We must all have courage to speak up and speak out.
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October 25, 2022THIS TYPE OF PROPAGANDA IS DANGEROUS, AND CAN AND WILL KILL PEOPLE. GOODREADS, WHY ARE YOU PROMOTING THIS INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS MISINFORMATION?
January 12, 2023
Yikes...
I appreciate the publisher for providing copies of this book for honest review, but this one taught me to read more carefully when I request things.
The New Abnormal sounded promising, offering insights into a rising biometric security state. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't a psychologist that works for a conservative think tank misrepresenting history and using anti-capitalist arguments unironically to rail against the protections put in place by governments during the COVID-19 pandemic.
For the record, I stopped in the middle of chapter one. I ended on the printed page 32, but there's a 25 page introduction that I read. I'm counting that. I stopped when I ran out of the red page flags, taking that as a sign to call it quits. (And that's a lot of page flags to use in that short a section of book!)
This book, in my opinion, is dangerous. It's written by someone seemingly in a position of good authority on medical matters, so why shouldn't Dr. Kheriaty speak on COVID-19? Well, for starters, he's a psychiatrist. Not an immunologist or epidemiologist or an infectious disease doctor. A psychiatrist. Most information I can find about him relates to either his work in the conservative medical ethics think tank, his own substack, or the fact that he got fired for refusing to get vaccinated. The writing itself is solid, and if you don't know what to look for or don't want to delve into his bibliography, you'd believe this was a well-researched book.
However, one of my biggest issues with The New Abnormal is the unethical (ironic) use of sources. To run with one article exclusively for a particular section with no counter or corroborating accounts is lazy at best and disingenuous at worst. It goes further, too, when one looks more closely at the source being relied so heavily on. Represented as a journalist, Kheriaty cites Michael Tracey when discussing university COVID protocols--except Tracey publishes to his own substack or in right-wing media outlets exclusively. He could not have picked a more bias source. He then goes on to cite Tracey's twitter account for a horror story from university students rather than supplying a less dubious source like a real news article or an interview.
Shortly after that, we get a real gem: "A student at the University of Chicago told me all students there had to sign a Soviet-style affidavit pledging that they would snitch on fellow students for even minor violations of covid protocols."
A. Student. Told. Me.
No citation, no source, no evidence at all.
And then citing material that was criticized at its publication without mentioning that criticism? It irks me. I spent too many years learning ethical research practices to just ignore what Kheriaty has done. You cannot cherry pick your sources.
The other big issue that I took with the book also ties into what I've learned as a researcher, and that is the gross misrepresentation or misinterpretation of historical fact. To cite the experiments of Nazi scientists as comparable to the work being done by doctors trying to halt the spread of COVID is fear mongering, plain and simple. Tests and procedures designed to protect the most vulnerable of our society (e.g. masking) is in no way the same as forced sterilization or euthanasia of society's "undesirables".
And then the attempt to tie American lock-downs to the lack thereof in Communist USSR or Fascist Italy or during the bombing of London. Just, no. For the first two, the government was backed by a fear of extreme violence--they didn't need legislation to force people to stay inside and away from others. As for the bombing of London, Kheriaty is correct in mentioning their curfews, but to equate on any level a virus and literal bombs makes no sense. Locking down the city of London for a threat that came almost exclusively at night and that couldn't spread from person to person would have made no sense; it would not be a proportional response. However, the use of the RAF to combat German planes did make sense, just like wearing masks to combat the spread of a virus spread the respiration makes sense.
His values also seem to be inconsistent from time to time. For all his going on about medical consent, he is awfully quiet on the subject of abortion, too. Between that and the (presumably) accidental anti-capitalist takes, there are a lot of application gaps (although his inability to see racism as a public health issue tracks I guess).
And one final minor gripe that's more on his editor than Kheriaty himself, but not being able to get an official act of legislation right is laziness. It is Canada's Emergencies Act.
In the end, I had to stop reading this for my own sake. I absolutely would not recommend this to anyone at all, and I wish it had never been published because I do believe that it is the type of book that can be dangerous.
I appreciate the publisher for providing copies of this book for honest review, but this one taught me to read more carefully when I request things.
The New Abnormal sounded promising, offering insights into a rising biometric security state. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't a psychologist that works for a conservative think tank misrepresenting history and using anti-capitalist arguments unironically to rail against the protections put in place by governments during the COVID-19 pandemic.
For the record, I stopped in the middle of chapter one. I ended on the printed page 32, but there's a 25 page introduction that I read. I'm counting that. I stopped when I ran out of the red page flags, taking that as a sign to call it quits. (And that's a lot of page flags to use in that short a section of book!)
This book, in my opinion, is dangerous. It's written by someone seemingly in a position of good authority on medical matters, so why shouldn't Dr. Kheriaty speak on COVID-19? Well, for starters, he's a psychiatrist. Not an immunologist or epidemiologist or an infectious disease doctor. A psychiatrist. Most information I can find about him relates to either his work in the conservative medical ethics think tank, his own substack, or the fact that he got fired for refusing to get vaccinated. The writing itself is solid, and if you don't know what to look for or don't want to delve into his bibliography, you'd believe this was a well-researched book.
However, one of my biggest issues with The New Abnormal is the unethical (ironic) use of sources. To run with one article exclusively for a particular section with no counter or corroborating accounts is lazy at best and disingenuous at worst. It goes further, too, when one looks more closely at the source being relied so heavily on. Represented as a journalist, Kheriaty cites Michael Tracey when discussing university COVID protocols--except Tracey publishes to his own substack or in right-wing media outlets exclusively. He could not have picked a more bias source. He then goes on to cite Tracey's twitter account for a horror story from university students rather than supplying a less dubious source like a real news article or an interview.
Shortly after that, we get a real gem: "A student at the University of Chicago told me all students there had to sign a Soviet-style affidavit pledging that they would snitch on fellow students for even minor violations of covid protocols."
A. Student. Told. Me.
No citation, no source, no evidence at all.
And then citing material that was criticized at its publication without mentioning that criticism? It irks me. I spent too many years learning ethical research practices to just ignore what Kheriaty has done. You cannot cherry pick your sources.
The other big issue that I took with the book also ties into what I've learned as a researcher, and that is the gross misrepresentation or misinterpretation of historical fact. To cite the experiments of Nazi scientists as comparable to the work being done by doctors trying to halt the spread of COVID is fear mongering, plain and simple. Tests and procedures designed to protect the most vulnerable of our society (e.g. masking) is in no way the same as forced sterilization or euthanasia of society's "undesirables".
And then the attempt to tie American lock-downs to the lack thereof in Communist USSR or Fascist Italy or during the bombing of London. Just, no. For the first two, the government was backed by a fear of extreme violence--they didn't need legislation to force people to stay inside and away from others. As for the bombing of London, Kheriaty is correct in mentioning their curfews, but to equate on any level a virus and literal bombs makes no sense. Locking down the city of London for a threat that came almost exclusively at night and that couldn't spread from person to person would have made no sense; it would not be a proportional response. However, the use of the RAF to combat German planes did make sense, just like wearing masks to combat the spread of a virus spread the respiration makes sense.
His values also seem to be inconsistent from time to time. For all his going on about medical consent, he is awfully quiet on the subject of abortion, too. Between that and the (presumably) accidental anti-capitalist takes, there are a lot of application gaps (although his inability to see racism as a public health issue tracks I guess).
And one final minor gripe that's more on his editor than Kheriaty himself, but not being able to get an official act of legislation right is laziness. It is Canada's Emergencies Act.
In the end, I had to stop reading this for my own sake. I absolutely would not recommend this to anyone at all, and I wish it had never been published because I do believe that it is the type of book that can be dangerous.
February 20, 2025
This has been in my library for 3 yrs. I decided to read it as a catharsis, a distraction from current events, reminiscing & ruminating, bringing back memories of that special time😂🥸
Now that the scab has been torn away, I will be following & focusing on RFK Jr’s MAHA Commission
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidenti...
..and see how long he lasts
My favorite takeaways from this book
He explains “communist style capitalism “, & the difference between Platonist & Hegelian/Marxist philosophies , making it easier to understand
Now that the scab has been torn away, I will be following & focusing on RFK Jr’s MAHA Commission
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidenti...
..and see how long he lasts
My favorite takeaways from this book
He explains “communist style capitalism “, & the difference between Platonist & Hegelian/Marxist philosophies , making it easier to understand
stricken
February 16, 2023The first paragraph of the blurb reads rather sensationalized. I'll pass.
March 17, 2024
This terrific book puts the outrageous, unwarranted and ineffectual infringements on civil liberties that were imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic in the context of a larger effort by governments to monitor and control the citizenry - the rising biomedical security state.
Kheriaty focuses on the vaccine mandates, which governments and institutions imposed universally, even when it quickly became clear that the vaccines did not prevent infection or spread, while disregarding potential side effects and natural immunity from prior infections that was equal to or better than any protection from the vaccine. These mandates were in derogation of well-established principles of medical ethics relating to informed consent and the need to show community benefit before imposing mandates. The mandates are consistent with the rise of the new religion of Scientism. Under this religion, so-called "experts" make evidence-free pronouncements about matters such as pandemic "safety" or "climate change," citizens must comply unconditionally, regardless of personal cost or damage, heretical opinions that depart from the orthodoxy are suppressed, and the heretics who oppose vaccine mandates and similar measures are condemned, ostracized and punished for their apostasy via terminations from their jobs and restrictions on where they can go and what they can do.
Kheriarty uses his own experience, in which he was terminated by his employer, one of the many colleges implementing the diktats of the biomedical security state, for resisting the vaccine mandates despite his own natural immunity from a prior infection, to explain the dangers of the rise of the biomedical security state and the need to resist at all costs.
The book concludes with a chapter about a near-future dystopia that seems indulgently speculative at the outset only to become increasingly harrowing by the end. The New Abnormal makes a compelling case for why the Scientism religion and the biomedical security state it fosters must be opposed.
Kheriaty focuses on the vaccine mandates, which governments and institutions imposed universally, even when it quickly became clear that the vaccines did not prevent infection or spread, while disregarding potential side effects and natural immunity from prior infections that was equal to or better than any protection from the vaccine. These mandates were in derogation of well-established principles of medical ethics relating to informed consent and the need to show community benefit before imposing mandates. The mandates are consistent with the rise of the new religion of Scientism. Under this religion, so-called "experts" make evidence-free pronouncements about matters such as pandemic "safety" or "climate change," citizens must comply unconditionally, regardless of personal cost or damage, heretical opinions that depart from the orthodoxy are suppressed, and the heretics who oppose vaccine mandates and similar measures are condemned, ostracized and punished for their apostasy via terminations from their jobs and restrictions on where they can go and what they can do.
Kheriarty uses his own experience, in which he was terminated by his employer, one of the many colleges implementing the diktats of the biomedical security state, for resisting the vaccine mandates despite his own natural immunity from a prior infection, to explain the dangers of the rise of the biomedical security state and the need to resist at all costs.
The book concludes with a chapter about a near-future dystopia that seems indulgently speculative at the outset only to become increasingly harrowing by the end. The New Abnormal makes a compelling case for why the Scientism religion and the biomedical security state it fosters must be opposed.
November 26, 2023
p. 179.
People used to be presumed healthy until proven sick: you needed a doctor's note if you missed too many days of work. But during the pandemic, people were assumed to be sick until proven healthy. You need never-ending asymptomatic testing to allow you to work, travel, gather, and so on. Your immune system was assumed to be subfunctional until you downloaded the latest mRNA software update in the form of a jab.
p. 4
Accordin to the DHS bulletin, those who spread what the government considered "misinformation" about the pandemic, thereby undermining public trust in the US government, should be considered "domestic terrorist" threats. If you challenge the government's preferred pandemic policies, by excercising your First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, by speaking out or protesting mandates, you could be considered a domestic threat actor or terrorirsm rlated threat. Homeland Security characterized claims as false or misleading, not when they contradict empirical evidence or scientific findings, but when they "undermine public trust in U.S government institutions.
p. 6
Covid proved a useful opportunity for global elites with economic and political interests, in collaboration with the intelligence community and the policy powers of the state, to accelerate the acceptance of a powerful and invasive digital infrastructure of biomedical surveillance and control.
p. 50
If Australian (or US or Canadian?) doctors mention findings of a published study that are not consistent with public health messaging, that is, the views of the public health bureaucrats in power - those physicians could lose their ability to practice medicine.
p. 51
A physician with a gag order is not a physician you can trust. Advances in science and medicine occur when doctors and scientists challenge conventional thinking or settled opinion. Good science is characterized by conjecture and refutation, lively deliberation, fierce debate and openness to new data. This fixating any consensus as unassailable will stifle medical progress.
p. 56
The essence of totalitarianism is simply that certain questions are forbidden.
You will be accused of being a pandemic denier, being anti-science, etc.
p. 66
Covid vaccine mandates were harnessed to a novel system of vaccine passports and digital surveilance that turned many jurisdictions into discriminatory "papers please" regimes.
p. 67
Societal exclusion was baked into the system. Policymakers openly admitted that the intent of vaccine passports was to make life so uncomfortable for the unvaccinated that they would eventually fall in line and get the jab.
p. 68
For more than a year, ordinary people accepted, as a routine condition of traveling, working and accessing public spaces, a system of surveillance and control that would have formerly been unthinkable. The deployment of fear during covid created a social and psychological climate in which citizens conceded to this system of surveillance and control with little resistance. Freedom of movement, of association, of domicile in one's country of origin, and access to public spaces and events went from basic rights to special privileges conferred by the government as rewards for good behavior. The transformation of these rights into privileges required the enormous strain of prolonged lockdowns followed by the promise of vaccination as the only ticket back to a normal life.
p. 69
This system exacerbated the two-tiered society that lockdowns helped create, stigmatizing large segments of the population. The definition of fully vaccinated became a moving target, such that access granted by a vaccine passport was given only temporarily. Ironically, this was exacerbated by the failure of vaccines to provide long-term protection against the virus and by the unfounded hope that additional doses would remedy these deficiencies, though there was little to no data to support this. Vaccine passports were actually temporary licenses for living: the government's permission to move and participate in civil society could be rescinded at any moment.
p. 70
A passport is a document that allows one to enter a foreign country. Thus, if vaccine passports really as passports, they turn every person into an alien in his or her own homeland. Under a vaccine passport regime, we are all homeless, every one of us an exile, a stranger in a strange land.
p. 72
Instead of altering vaccine policies when new data contradicted them, public health agencies buried the data to save the policies. p. 75
Coercive covid vaccination mandates rested on several unproven postulates, which mainstream opinion took to be axiomatic and unassailable: vaccine are safe for everyone, they are necessary for everyone, therefore any vaccine hesitancy is a public relations problem that must be overcome. Any scientist, physician or policymaker who broke ranks to questions these axioms was at best a nuisance ofr at worst - dangerous - someone to be ignored as backwards or dismissed as a threat to public health. People who asked inconvenient questions were labeled with the dismissive anti-vax epithet, which functioned to exclude them from the realm of reasonable discourse. Not public education, but manipulative effort at behavioral control.
p. 81
There was no public conversation or debate about lockdown policies. Our politicians abdicated responsibility by hiding the by science or the experts as though these trademarked phrases conjured a single monolithic table of all-encompassing data. With a few exceptions, most of our leadership class failed spectacularly. Even now they remain unwilling to admit their mistakes. What descended on us was not just a novel virus but a novel mode of social organization and control.
p. 112
If one tried to contest the rationality of these mandates, the mandating institution just punted back to the CDC recommendations as the rational basis for their mandate. The courts deferred to the CDC's authority on public health. The city, school, business, etc. disclaimed all responsibility for the mandate decision. "We're just following CDC recommendations after all." But the CDC likewise disclaimed responsibility - "we don't make policy, we just make recommendations." Went around in circles trying to identify the actual decision makers, it was impossible to pinpoint the relevant authority. Millions were left to content with the consequences of decision that nobody claims to have made. The only certainty is that we did not make the decision and we were never given the choice.
p. 120
For any other product the FDA would have immediately halted its use. An appendix listing the various types of reported adverse reactions consisted of nine solid pages of text describing countless medically serious conditions. The Pfizer data demonstrates that the risks were known that were not disclosed to recipients during the mass vaccination campaign. Pfizer and the FDA knew about these adverse events, which are dose-dependent, that is, they worsen with subsequent boosters. They knew that these vaccines would not protect us against infection, viral replication or transmission. They knew their efficacy claims were overstated. They knew the vaccine was not tested in pregnant women or older people. This undermined informed consent and legally constituted fraud.
p. 136
One month we are told that vaccines stop viral transmission. The next month we are told by the same talking heads that vaccines do not stop viral transmission. What is more, these vaccines were never meant to stop viral transmission. Your confusion and humiliation are a feature of the PR strategy. For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely as Orwell taught us.
p. 183
The rising biomedical security state with its mass surveillance, its temporary licenses to live, its contingent vouchers to buy and sell, and its coercive medical mandates - a system in which dissidents are punished through exclusion, has already shown itself to contain the seeds of a new form of totalitarianism. With virtually no pushback, we have already allowed many unjust and harmful measures to advance. Our general goodwill and civic mindedness were nullified by misplaced trust and self-protective timidity. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in the Gulag Archipelago, If only we had stood together against the common threat we could easily have defeated it - wo why didn't we? We didn't love freedom enough. And even more, we had no awareness of the real situation. We hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."
p. 184
There is a human right not enshrined in any constitution - the right to the truth. No right has been more systematically trammeled over the last three years. Regarding future medical mandates and other coercive measures: nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience constitute the right and just push forward, and required if we are to prevent this twilight from fading into night.
People used to be presumed healthy until proven sick: you needed a doctor's note if you missed too many days of work. But during the pandemic, people were assumed to be sick until proven healthy. You need never-ending asymptomatic testing to allow you to work, travel, gather, and so on. Your immune system was assumed to be subfunctional until you downloaded the latest mRNA software update in the form of a jab.
p. 4
Accordin to the DHS bulletin, those who spread what the government considered "misinformation" about the pandemic, thereby undermining public trust in the US government, should be considered "domestic terrorist" threats. If you challenge the government's preferred pandemic policies, by excercising your First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, by speaking out or protesting mandates, you could be considered a domestic threat actor or terrorirsm rlated threat. Homeland Security characterized claims as false or misleading, not when they contradict empirical evidence or scientific findings, but when they "undermine public trust in U.S government institutions.
p. 6
Covid proved a useful opportunity for global elites with economic and political interests, in collaboration with the intelligence community and the policy powers of the state, to accelerate the acceptance of a powerful and invasive digital infrastructure of biomedical surveillance and control.
p. 50
If Australian (or US or Canadian?) doctors mention findings of a published study that are not consistent with public health messaging, that is, the views of the public health bureaucrats in power - those physicians could lose their ability to practice medicine.
p. 51
A physician with a gag order is not a physician you can trust. Advances in science and medicine occur when doctors and scientists challenge conventional thinking or settled opinion. Good science is characterized by conjecture and refutation, lively deliberation, fierce debate and openness to new data. This fixating any consensus as unassailable will stifle medical progress.
p. 56
The essence of totalitarianism is simply that certain questions are forbidden.
You will be accused of being a pandemic denier, being anti-science, etc.
p. 66
Covid vaccine mandates were harnessed to a novel system of vaccine passports and digital surveilance that turned many jurisdictions into discriminatory "papers please" regimes.
p. 67
Societal exclusion was baked into the system. Policymakers openly admitted that the intent of vaccine passports was to make life so uncomfortable for the unvaccinated that they would eventually fall in line and get the jab.
p. 68
For more than a year, ordinary people accepted, as a routine condition of traveling, working and accessing public spaces, a system of surveillance and control that would have formerly been unthinkable. The deployment of fear during covid created a social and psychological climate in which citizens conceded to this system of surveillance and control with little resistance. Freedom of movement, of association, of domicile in one's country of origin, and access to public spaces and events went from basic rights to special privileges conferred by the government as rewards for good behavior. The transformation of these rights into privileges required the enormous strain of prolonged lockdowns followed by the promise of vaccination as the only ticket back to a normal life.
p. 69
This system exacerbated the two-tiered society that lockdowns helped create, stigmatizing large segments of the population. The definition of fully vaccinated became a moving target, such that access granted by a vaccine passport was given only temporarily. Ironically, this was exacerbated by the failure of vaccines to provide long-term protection against the virus and by the unfounded hope that additional doses would remedy these deficiencies, though there was little to no data to support this. Vaccine passports were actually temporary licenses for living: the government's permission to move and participate in civil society could be rescinded at any moment.
p. 70
A passport is a document that allows one to enter a foreign country. Thus, if vaccine passports really as passports, they turn every person into an alien in his or her own homeland. Under a vaccine passport regime, we are all homeless, every one of us an exile, a stranger in a strange land.
p. 72
Instead of altering vaccine policies when new data contradicted them, public health agencies buried the data to save the policies. p. 75
Coercive covid vaccination mandates rested on several unproven postulates, which mainstream opinion took to be axiomatic and unassailable: vaccine are safe for everyone, they are necessary for everyone, therefore any vaccine hesitancy is a public relations problem that must be overcome. Any scientist, physician or policymaker who broke ranks to questions these axioms was at best a nuisance ofr at worst - dangerous - someone to be ignored as backwards or dismissed as a threat to public health. People who asked inconvenient questions were labeled with the dismissive anti-vax epithet, which functioned to exclude them from the realm of reasonable discourse. Not public education, but manipulative effort at behavioral control.
p. 81
There was no public conversation or debate about lockdown policies. Our politicians abdicated responsibility by hiding the by science or the experts as though these trademarked phrases conjured a single monolithic table of all-encompassing data. With a few exceptions, most of our leadership class failed spectacularly. Even now they remain unwilling to admit their mistakes. What descended on us was not just a novel virus but a novel mode of social organization and control.
p. 112
If one tried to contest the rationality of these mandates, the mandating institution just punted back to the CDC recommendations as the rational basis for their mandate. The courts deferred to the CDC's authority on public health. The city, school, business, etc. disclaimed all responsibility for the mandate decision. "We're just following CDC recommendations after all." But the CDC likewise disclaimed responsibility - "we don't make policy, we just make recommendations." Went around in circles trying to identify the actual decision makers, it was impossible to pinpoint the relevant authority. Millions were left to content with the consequences of decision that nobody claims to have made. The only certainty is that we did not make the decision and we were never given the choice.
p. 120
For any other product the FDA would have immediately halted its use. An appendix listing the various types of reported adverse reactions consisted of nine solid pages of text describing countless medically serious conditions. The Pfizer data demonstrates that the risks were known that were not disclosed to recipients during the mass vaccination campaign. Pfizer and the FDA knew about these adverse events, which are dose-dependent, that is, they worsen with subsequent boosters. They knew that these vaccines would not protect us against infection, viral replication or transmission. They knew their efficacy claims were overstated. They knew the vaccine was not tested in pregnant women or older people. This undermined informed consent and legally constituted fraud.
p. 136
One month we are told that vaccines stop viral transmission. The next month we are told by the same talking heads that vaccines do not stop viral transmission. What is more, these vaccines were never meant to stop viral transmission. Your confusion and humiliation are a feature of the PR strategy. For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely as Orwell taught us.
p. 183
The rising biomedical security state with its mass surveillance, its temporary licenses to live, its contingent vouchers to buy and sell, and its coercive medical mandates - a system in which dissidents are punished through exclusion, has already shown itself to contain the seeds of a new form of totalitarianism. With virtually no pushback, we have already allowed many unjust and harmful measures to advance. Our general goodwill and civic mindedness were nullified by misplaced trust and self-protective timidity. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote in the Gulag Archipelago, If only we had stood together against the common threat we could easily have defeated it - wo why didn't we? We didn't love freedom enough. And even more, we had no awareness of the real situation. We hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."
p. 184
There is a human right not enshrined in any constitution - the right to the truth. No right has been more systematically trammeled over the last three years. Regarding future medical mandates and other coercive measures: nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience constitute the right and just push forward, and required if we are to prevent this twilight from fading into night.
May 17, 2023
This is an important book presented in an intelligent, easily read style, which I found hard to put down once I started reading. Aaron Kheriaty
has written a clear-eyed and literate view of the place of the 2020-21 pandemic within a much wider subject of the looming dominance of the biomedical security state. He gives his views through the lens of a practising clinical psychologist, academic and an experienced and profound ethicist. What is refreshing about his book is that Kheriaty although focussing on America, sets his whole subject in and shows acute knowledge of, worldwide responses and research. He also sets the whole event in a wider historical setting, speaking about the early eugenics movement and Nazi control of medicine in the 20th Century.
In a very interesting chapter, he clearly delineates the difference between real science based on accepted methodologies and argument against scientism which is based on religious-style beliefs and rigid orthodoxies.
Kheriaty is scathingly critical of Western government's kow-towing to communistic ideas and the money and pervasive influence from the CCP in health matters on academic levels and government strategies during the covid pandemic and before.
Chapter 2 delineates his loss of his job at UCI and law suits against the University because they fired him for refusing the covid jab. Along with others in parts of the book, it's quite shocking and unprecedented how badly people were treated and let down during covid. Kheriaty was sacked from his 20-year position as a Professor at UCI when he dared to disagree with the established covid narrative and comply with mandatory vaccines. As an ethics in medicine professor he said
" In the end, my decision to challenge these mandates came down to this question: How could I continue to call myself a medical ethicist if I failed to do what I was convinced was morally right under pressure? Projecting ahead to the required medical ethics course I taught to first- and second-year medical students at the beginning of each year, I could not imagine lecturing on informed consent, moral courage, and our duty to protect patients from harm if I had failed to oppose these unjust and unscientific mandates. I simply would not have woken up each day with a clear conscience."
Kheriaty meticulously unravels the tangled web of vested interests and supposed regulators and the compliant media which, in what can only be seen as a corrupt system money buys approval and covers up when things go wrong. The whole system of safeguards for drugs and vaccines seems to have been loosened and made less safe in the US (and probably elsewhere) since the 1990s as each safeguard in the interest of patients and people has been slowly picked away. It seems also that with the covid vaccine things got even worse, a system of 'anything goes' prevailed, and 'don't anyone dare to question any of it'.
I was shocked to discover from this book that the NHS planned to share/sell the data of 55 million patients with private companies and was stopped by an exposé in the Financial Times, this wasn't widely publicised. However, this was not before they had shared data with many companies already, including the data of those who had supposedly opted out. We are left to conclude from all this that we actually cannot trust anyone. NOT ANYONE in authority it seems. I was also shocked but not surprised by the sheer scale of wealth redistribution from the poor to the rich which took place during the pandemic. It seems to stretch to more than $1trillion, probably much more. Kheriaty has very good statistical information in the book, where this is enlightening.
Kheriaty's main theme is the plans for biomedical dominance which WHO and WEF are working towards.
"Davos Man helped craft the pandemic rules in his own interests, orchestrating a staggering, world-historical scheme of larceny."
"In the wake of the pandemic, the richest ten people in the world now have combined wealth greater than the poorest eighty-five countries combined. Pause for a moment and try to wrap your mind around that. This outcome was neither accidental nor caused by a virus. It was driven by specific policies that our elites orchestrated and that we accepted. Let us not be deceived: the devil dances in Davos."
I felt physically sick after reading that paragraph! Another sick-inducing element is to read about the ideas of the transhumanist, Yuval Noah Harari,a fanatic and darling of the World Economic Forum who wants to monitor and hack what's going on in our bodies, not for us, or our benefit, but for control and his profit. He is a sinister, atheistic individual who thinks he can take the place of God and tinker with human biology. He tells humans they don't have God-given free will. Anything sound like a useful idiot being manipulated by a malign force here?
Harari doesn't realise who last promoted this type of idea, yes, the advocates of eugenics. This quote may give a sense of why Harari is so nauseating:
"Harari has puzzled over the question of what to do with people in the future who will refuse artificial intelligence–mediated enhancement— folks he refers to as “useless people". “The biggest question maybe in economics and politics in the coming decades,” he predicts, “will be what to do with all these useless people?” He goes on to explain, “The problem is more boredom, what to do with them, and how will they find some sense of meaning in life when they are basically meaningless, worthless.”"
The final chapter ends on an upward note with Aaron Kheriaty's suggestions of how we can move forward in a better direction than the limited elites imagine for us and how we can resist their tyrannies.
The whole book is a compelling read which I finished in two sessions. It serves as a warning of why we should do everything possible to be very aware of those who seek to control and rule us and hold those people accountable. We must resist their sinister ideas and instead use technology for good and not give in to their ignoble control-freakery. They are after all rather sad, deluded freaks.
has written a clear-eyed and literate view of the place of the 2020-21 pandemic within a much wider subject of the looming dominance of the biomedical security state. He gives his views through the lens of a practising clinical psychologist, academic and an experienced and profound ethicist. What is refreshing about his book is that Kheriaty although focussing on America, sets his whole subject in and shows acute knowledge of, worldwide responses and research. He also sets the whole event in a wider historical setting, speaking about the early eugenics movement and Nazi control of medicine in the 20th Century.
In a very interesting chapter, he clearly delineates the difference between real science based on accepted methodologies and argument against scientism which is based on religious-style beliefs and rigid orthodoxies.
Kheriaty is scathingly critical of Western government's kow-towing to communistic ideas and the money and pervasive influence from the CCP in health matters on academic levels and government strategies during the covid pandemic and before.
Chapter 2 delineates his loss of his job at UCI and law suits against the University because they fired him for refusing the covid jab. Along with others in parts of the book, it's quite shocking and unprecedented how badly people were treated and let down during covid. Kheriaty was sacked from his 20-year position as a Professor at UCI when he dared to disagree with the established covid narrative and comply with mandatory vaccines. As an ethics in medicine professor he said
" In the end, my decision to challenge these mandates came down to this question: How could I continue to call myself a medical ethicist if I failed to do what I was convinced was morally right under pressure? Projecting ahead to the required medical ethics course I taught to first- and second-year medical students at the beginning of each year, I could not imagine lecturing on informed consent, moral courage, and our duty to protect patients from harm if I had failed to oppose these unjust and unscientific mandates. I simply would not have woken up each day with a clear conscience."
Kheriaty meticulously unravels the tangled web of vested interests and supposed regulators and the compliant media which, in what can only be seen as a corrupt system money buys approval and covers up when things go wrong. The whole system of safeguards for drugs and vaccines seems to have been loosened and made less safe in the US (and probably elsewhere) since the 1990s as each safeguard in the interest of patients and people has been slowly picked away. It seems also that with the covid vaccine things got even worse, a system of 'anything goes' prevailed, and 'don't anyone dare to question any of it'.
I was shocked to discover from this book that the NHS planned to share/sell the data of 55 million patients with private companies and was stopped by an exposé in the Financial Times, this wasn't widely publicised. However, this was not before they had shared data with many companies already, including the data of those who had supposedly opted out. We are left to conclude from all this that we actually cannot trust anyone. NOT ANYONE in authority it seems. I was also shocked but not surprised by the sheer scale of wealth redistribution from the poor to the rich which took place during the pandemic. It seems to stretch to more than $1trillion, probably much more. Kheriaty has very good statistical information in the book, where this is enlightening.
Kheriaty's main theme is the plans for biomedical dominance which WHO and WEF are working towards.
"Davos Man helped craft the pandemic rules in his own interests, orchestrating a staggering, world-historical scheme of larceny."
"In the wake of the pandemic, the richest ten people in the world now have combined wealth greater than the poorest eighty-five countries combined. Pause for a moment and try to wrap your mind around that. This outcome was neither accidental nor caused by a virus. It was driven by specific policies that our elites orchestrated and that we accepted. Let us not be deceived: the devil dances in Davos."
I felt physically sick after reading that paragraph! Another sick-inducing element is to read about the ideas of the transhumanist, Yuval Noah Harari,a fanatic and darling of the World Economic Forum who wants to monitor and hack what's going on in our bodies, not for us, or our benefit, but for control and his profit. He is a sinister, atheistic individual who thinks he can take the place of God and tinker with human biology. He tells humans they don't have God-given free will. Anything sound like a useful idiot being manipulated by a malign force here?
Harari doesn't realise who last promoted this type of idea, yes, the advocates of eugenics. This quote may give a sense of why Harari is so nauseating:
"Harari has puzzled over the question of what to do with people in the future who will refuse artificial intelligence–mediated enhancement— folks he refers to as “useless people". “The biggest question maybe in economics and politics in the coming decades,” he predicts, “will be what to do with all these useless people?” He goes on to explain, “The problem is more boredom, what to do with them, and how will they find some sense of meaning in life when they are basically meaningless, worthless.”"
The final chapter ends on an upward note with Aaron Kheriaty's suggestions of how we can move forward in a better direction than the limited elites imagine for us and how we can resist their tyrannies.
The whole book is a compelling read which I finished in two sessions. It serves as a warning of why we should do everything possible to be very aware of those who seek to control and rule us and hold those people accountable. We must resist their sinister ideas and instead use technology for good and not give in to their ignoble control-freakery. They are after all rather sad, deluded freaks.
May 20, 2023
This book was a 4.5 for me because I wasn’t a fan of the ending and the author’s idea of what society will be like in 2030. I’d rather he ended with things the average person can do to stop or opt out of this current madness that we now live in. The information was gathered and put together in a thought provoking way. Overall I liked it and I picked the book for its interesting title. All the talk about getting to the “new normal” (we never hear that phrase now, what happened?) before Joe Biden was elected. All we really got was a new abnormal with mandates, forced vaccinations and a new cancel culture (I never thought Noam Chomsky would publicly say the unvaccinated should be taken away.) that silences opposing views was what we really got. The title appealed to me and the book delivered in spades.
October 20, 2024
Unfortunately this books damage was done before it was written. All this does is give three syllable words to antivaxxers. Of course the militaristic attacks on protests against police or vaccines should not happen and it is horrible that incompetency in the state undermines benevolent NGOs and volunteers trying to bridge the gap of information and fear and belief but the author betrays his appeal to a traditional conservativism in progressive clothes when he chooses to single out authoritarianism as some vague broad happening in governance or liberal group think when in reality the struggle is that capital necessitates that the leaders not balance the good of society and the good of the market but to always bend the good of society to subservience to the needs and wants of the market.
March 21, 2023
4.5*
Aaron Kheriaty, M.D. was a practitioner in California when he first began to suspect that something didn't quite ring true about the version of the pandemic that was being broadcast to the population. The work is highly detailed, and every paper or source to which he refers is listed in the last 30% of the book. He uncovers the way in which certain language was used to ramp up the fear, how citizens were encouraged to inform on each other for so-called misdemeanours, how those who wished to exercise their right to informed consent before considering taking the injections were demonised, and, most worrying of all, how anyone in the medical profession who was brave enough to say 'something isn't right' paid dearly for doing so.
He also uncovers the true extent and severity of the virus itself, the efficacy of the injections, how the extent of vaccine injury is being kept under wraps, including the truth about ADE (antibody dependent enhancement) that I read so much about when the shots were first rolled out. He gives information about who does most of the funding for the WHO (no surprises there) and how the tools used to promote the new religion of 'Scientism' are the same deployed by totalitarian systems. Kheriaty talks about what's to come and how it can be resisted. The second half of the book goes too much into philosophy generally, I thought, and was a tad idealistic, but that was the only aspect I was not so sure about.
This is worth buying for the epilogue alone - a story written in the second person about 'you' in the year 2030 - a high level Microsoft employee who loves his biometric sensors that give his 'Social Responsibility Score' to anyone who needs to know it, that monitor his mood, physical exertion, every movement, suggest medication, dietary improvements, etc etc. At first life seems all fine and dandy, but gradually the cracks start to show ... it's not without humour and is a real gem!
I highlighted loads of passages and could have written pages about this book, but I decided a basic overview would probably be more effective. If you have any interested in the subjects outlined, I highly recommend this.
Aaron Kheriaty, M.D. was a practitioner in California when he first began to suspect that something didn't quite ring true about the version of the pandemic that was being broadcast to the population. The work is highly detailed, and every paper or source to which he refers is listed in the last 30% of the book. He uncovers the way in which certain language was used to ramp up the fear, how citizens were encouraged to inform on each other for so-called misdemeanours, how those who wished to exercise their right to informed consent before considering taking the injections were demonised, and, most worrying of all, how anyone in the medical profession who was brave enough to say 'something isn't right' paid dearly for doing so.
He also uncovers the true extent and severity of the virus itself, the efficacy of the injections, how the extent of vaccine injury is being kept under wraps, including the truth about ADE (antibody dependent enhancement) that I read so much about when the shots were first rolled out. He gives information about who does most of the funding for the WHO (no surprises there) and how the tools used to promote the new religion of 'Scientism' are the same deployed by totalitarian systems. Kheriaty talks about what's to come and how it can be resisted. The second half of the book goes too much into philosophy generally, I thought, and was a tad idealistic, but that was the only aspect I was not so sure about.
This is worth buying for the epilogue alone - a story written in the second person about 'you' in the year 2030 - a high level Microsoft employee who loves his biometric sensors that give his 'Social Responsibility Score' to anyone who needs to know it, that monitor his mood, physical exertion, every movement, suggest medication, dietary improvements, etc etc. At first life seems all fine and dandy, but gradually the cracks start to show ... it's not without humour and is a real gem!
I highlighted loads of passages and could have written pages about this book, but I decided a basic overview would probably be more effective. If you have any interested in the subjects outlined, I highly recommend this.
December 31, 2025
It's funny how you can tell that the few people leaving negative reviews of this book are the exact type of people this book is warning about! Scientism cultists who can only react with anger and hostility at those who don't actively participate in the currently approved narratives. This book is excellent because it precisely articulates the sinister future ahead of us by analyzing the recent global events surrounding the totalitarian reaction to covid. The couple people calling this book "dangerous" just fear the danger it poses to their own precarious identity as dutiful adherents to The Offcial Message. The idea that they all became fanatical tyrants overnight, destroying people's lives and ending relationships with people who had been close to them their whole lives over a totally fabricated hysteria is too much for them to deal with, so they will lash out at anyone who might suggest it for the rest of their lives, and they will become even more fanatical and viciously tyrannical at the flip of a switch for the next socially-engineered biomedical emergency the "experts" tell them to flip out about. Covid showed us who these people really are, and thankfully we now know to avoid them like the plague.
November 15, 2022
I read the first chapter and couldn't read more.
The book seemed to be a disorganized recount of all the worst things that society experienced during the covid pandemic. Why would I want to be reminded?
Everything that government did that was wrong was mentioned. I didn't need to read the expanded versions of any of that in subsequent chapters since I'm a believer already.
All of the government's abuses of its citizens was predicted to continue for the rest of time. Don't I get it! I felt no need to read it since I'm depressed enough by it already.
These were the things that made it unpleasant for me to continue reading. Maybe some other day I'll give the book another go. But for now, I have too many other books waiting for me.
So far: NOT a Good Read.
The book seemed to be a disorganized recount of all the worst things that society experienced during the covid pandemic. Why would I want to be reminded?
Everything that government did that was wrong was mentioned. I didn't need to read the expanded versions of any of that in subsequent chapters since I'm a believer already.
All of the government's abuses of its citizens was predicted to continue for the rest of time. Don't I get it! I felt no need to read it since I'm depressed enough by it already.
These were the things that made it unpleasant for me to continue reading. Maybe some other day I'll give the book another go. But for now, I have too many other books waiting for me.
So far: NOT a Good Read.
June 3, 2023
Absolutely terrifying. And absolutely discouraging too. The author is more optimistic than I am that the horrifying future he envisions in the Epilogue can be avoided. Because the same people who embraced every covid restriction, no matter how unproven, intrusive or insane, are the same people who will eagerly embrace each new advance of the biomedical security because it will keep us safe/healthy/happy/will protect others, or whatever other bromide it's cloaked in. And those same people will give away our freedom with both hands because apparently they think history has nothing to do with them.
July 7, 2024
The New Abnormal is the dismaying, extremely well-written true story of the esteemed former UC/Irvine medical-school professor who was punished during the pandemic for the thought crime of "being clear-headed and correct." This is a cautionary tale, on steroids. Lots of harrowing details here about the expanding "bio-security state," the digital tracking, surveillance, and censorship of citizens expanding far beyond whether you've received the approved medical treatments or not.
I found the discussion of Hippocratic vs. Technocratic medicine particularly informative.
The final dystopian concluding chapter, "Seattle 2030," is worth the price of the book alone. In fact, my hardy recommendation of this book will probably do serious damage to my own social-credit based Index of Social Responsibility (ISR) score!
I found the discussion of Hippocratic vs. Technocratic medicine particularly informative.
The final dystopian concluding chapter, "Seattle 2030," is worth the price of the book alone. In fact, my hardy recommendation of this book will probably do serious damage to my own social-credit based Index of Social Responsibility (ISR) score!
April 2, 2025
Despite that the author is a doctor, this is the philosophers take on the pandemic. This is the COVID narrative from the perspective of what the World Economic Forum, WHO and the NIH tried to accomplish with it. Granted, Kheriaty assess what the idea of conspiracy theory can and is, and begins to pick apart the geopolitical protocols implemented throughout the lockdown period. Now, at the end of the book I would have given it a 4 out of 5, but then there is this long epilogue that departs from the narrative format and... it's a bold literary move... but unforgettable. In a way, Kheriaty teases it throughout with his many references to George Orwell, and it really brings all the concepts of the book together.
January 24, 2023
This is a must read if you want to know what our government did to us over the last three years, what will be the consequences for the coming years and what to expect in the future. It is a well researched book and very well written; easy to read. I have heard many of his lectures and he writes as well as he speaks! If you don't want to continue to be the world leader’s guinea pigs get educated! Learn about their tactics of fear porn and experimental gene therapies! If we don't start resisting, we as a human race will become extinct! If you want to hear his interviews go to Epoch Times.
February 6, 2023
A chilling read that's hard to put down. Our lives depend on professional, clear thinking, and honest analysis of what we're all going through in the world right now. Read who is praising Kheriaty and The New Abnormal and what they're saying; listen to him in interview, review his impeccable credentials, and understand the significance of what's being said. The New Abnormal is one of the most important resources for the past 2 years and going forward. I hope we all do the right thing; Absorb and address what we can, in this book.
March 18, 2023
This book informs people on how much power our government has over us. Things that made no sense & did nothing to improve our health did little to save lives.
How doctors, scientists, journalists, anyone with a different point of view with facts was shut down.
It's always follow the money & see who got rich off this while regular people lost. We were only allowed one option and that was the vaccine. A vaccine that didn't stop the spread or stop you from getting it. And they lied about it!
How doctors, scientists, journalists, anyone with a different point of view with facts was shut down.
It's always follow the money & see who got rich off this while regular people lost. We were only allowed one option and that was the vaccine. A vaccine that didn't stop the spread or stop you from getting it. And they lied about it!
June 11, 2025
After hearing Kheriaty speak at a conference a couple of years ago, my husband brought this book home for me. I just now read it, and found it really interesting. Talking about this book in my home has caused 1 person to rid themselves of their fitbit, and another to seriously think about it. Why we are freely giving away our medical and personal information, I don't know. After reading this book, you would think twice.
March 31, 2023
A must read for everyone
The USA is in real trouble. Life as we Americans have enjoyed will not exist in the near future. The craziness has got to be stopped while it can be. Every American has a role to play in halting this dive into grabbing your freedom. Read how you need to help NOW!
The USA is in real trouble. Life as we Americans have enjoyed will not exist in the near future. The craziness has got to be stopped while it can be. Every American has a role to play in halting this dive into grabbing your freedom. Read how you need to help NOW!
November 16, 2023
I had planned another project but I couldn't stop reading! I am so glad I lived far, far away from mask and vaccine mandates. (And since we didn't have to mask or vaccinate there were no passports.)
But it is very, very troubling to see how prevalent it was in my country of origin - and really all over the world.
But it is very, very troubling to see how prevalent it was in my country of origin - and really all over the world.
December 16, 2022
Could not read this book after the first few pages.
January 25, 2023
Great read
Thought provoking look at how the biomedical security state has already impacted our lives and what the future might hold if we don't wake up.
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Thought provoking look at how the biomedical security state has already impacted our lives and what the future might hold if we don't wake up.
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January 26, 2023
The ending was great — a look at dystopian America in 2030. Unrecognizable to today.
February 16, 2023
4.5/5, despite being depressingly familiar with most of the points covered.
My resolution to move to the middle of nowhere and obtain some chickens and mini goats strengthens by the day.
My resolution to move to the middle of nowhere and obtain some chickens and mini goats strengthens by the day.
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