1. Martial law as "public health." Remember how "two weeks to flatten the curve" became two years to flatten your will to live? Get ready for draconian, indefinitely extended lockdown measures whenever a "public health emergency" is declared — for example, before major elections.
2. Mandatory jab policies gone wild.
3. Censor and destroy all dissenting physicians, scientists, and health care workers.
4. Support and grow the Government-Pharmaceutical-Industrial Complex.
5. Predatory medical and social policies against children.
6. The woke Lysenkoism of academic medicine.
7. Complete government control of all aspects of medicine. Forget about the old bugbear of "socialized medicine." With Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, federal medicine, and NIH influence over academic medical centers, American medicine is already socialized.
However, during COVID-19, we saw government manufacture and enforce complete consent to its health care policy at a level never seen before. This was accomplished by thorough capture of hospital systems and local health officials with a crude but effective carrot-and-stick approach. Do exactly what we say, and we pay you off handsomely down the road (with taxpayer dollars). Don't do what we say, and we shut you down. For good. "
