Joseph Ladapo - Transcend Fear: A Blueprint for Mindful Leadership in Public Health

Copyright 2022 by Joseph A. Ladapo

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Contents

Foreword

by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Iatrarchymeaning government by physiciansis a little-known term, perhaps because historical experiments with it have been catastrophic. The medical profession has not proven itself an energetic defender of democratic institutions or civil rights. Virtually every doctor in Germany took lead roles in the Third Reichs project to eliminate mental defectives, homosexuals, handicapped citizens, and Jews. So many hundreds of German physicians participated in Hitlers worst atrocitiesincluding managing mass murder and unspeakable experiments at the death campsthat the Allies had to stage separate Medical Trials at Nuremberg. Not a single prominent German doctor or medical association raised their voice in opposition to these projects.

So its unsurprising that, instead of demanding blue-ribbon safety science and encouraging honest, open, and responsible debate on the science, the badly compromised and newly empowered government health officials charged with managing the COVID-19 pandemic response collaborated with mainstream and social media to shut down discussion on key public health and civil rights questions.

They silenced and excommunicated heretics who refused to genuflect to Pharma and treat unquestioning faith in economically devastating lockdowns, catastrophic school closures, and zero-liability, shoddily tested, experimental vaccines as religious duty.

Our current iatrarchys rubric of scientific consensus is the contemporary iteration of the Spanish Inquisition. It is a fabricated dogma constructed by this corrupt cast of physician technocrats and their media collaborators to legitimize their claims to dangerous new powers.

The high priests of the modern Inquisition are Big Pharmas network and cable news gasbags who preach rigid obedience to official diktats including lockdowns, social distancing, and the moral rectitude of donning masks despite the absence of peer-reviewed science that convincingly shows that masks prevent COVID-19 transmission. The need for this sort of proof is gratuitous.

They counsel us to, instead, trust the experts. Such advice is both antidemocratic and antiscience. Science is dynamic. Experts frequently differ on scientific questions, and their opinions can vary in accordance with and demands of politics, power, and financial self-interest. Nearly every lawsuit I have ever brought pitted highly credentialed experts from opposite sides against each other, with all of them swearing under oath to diametrically antithetical positions based on the same set of facts. Science is disagreement; the notion of scientific consensus is oxymoronic .

Instead of citing scientific studies to justify mandates for masks, lockdowns, and vaccines, our medical rulers cite WHO, CDC, FDA, and NIH-captive agencies that are groveling sock puppets to the industries they regulate. Multiple federal and international investigations have documented the financial entanglements with pharmaceutical companies that have made these regulators cesspools of corruption.

In 2020, led by Bill Gates, Silicon Valley applauded from the sidelines as powerful medical charlatansapplying the most pessimistic projections from discredited modeling and easily manipulated PCR testing, and a menu of new protocols for coroners that appeared intended to inflate reporting of COVID-19 deathsfanned pandemic panic and confined the worlds population under house arrest.

In America, their quarantine predictably shattered the nations once-booming economic engine, putting 58 million Americans out of work and permanently bankrupting over 100,000 small businesses , including 41,000 Black-owned businesses, some of which took three generations of investment to build . These policies have also set into motion the inevitable dismantling of the social safety net that nurtured Americas envied middle class. Government officials have already begun liquidating the 100-year legacies of the New Deal, the New Frontier, the Great Society, and Obamacare to pay the accumulated quarantine debts. Say good-bye to school lunches, healthcare, WIC, Medicaid, Medicare, University scholarships, and more.

Their government/industry collaboration will use this system to manage the rage when Americans finally wake up to the fact that this outlaw gang has stolen our democracy, civil rights, country, and way of lifewhile we huddled in orchestrated fear from a flu-like illness.

A consummate insider, the former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel is known for his admonition that vested power structures should never let a serious crisis to go to waste. But this tread-worn strategyto use crisis to inflame the public terror that paves the road to dictatorial powerhas served as the central strategy of totalitarian systems for the millennia.

The methodology is, in fact, formulaic, as Hillers Luftwaffe commander, Hermann Gring, explained during the Nazi war crimes trials at Nuremberg: It is always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it is a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, 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 greater danger. It works the same in any country.

Demagogues must weaponize fear to justify their demands for blind obedience and to win public acquiescence for the demolition of civil and economic rights. Of course, the first casualty must always be freedom of speech. In including free speech in the First Amendment of the Constitution, James Madison argued that all our other liberties depend on this right. Any government that can hide its mischief has license to commit atrocities.

As soon as they get hold of the levers of authority, tyrants impose Orwellian censorship and begin gaslighting dissenters. But ultimately, they seek to abolish all forms of creative thinking and self-expression. They burn books; destroy art; kill writers, poets, and intellectuals; outlaw gatherings; and, at their worst, force oppressed minorities to wear masks that atomize any sense of community or solidarity and prevent the subtle, eloquent nonverbal communication for which God and evolution have equipped humans with 42 facial muscles. The most savage Middle Eastern theocracies mandate masks for women, whose legal statusnot coincidentallyis as chattels.