I’ve had The Dictator’s Handbook on my audible wishlist for a few years now.
Chris mentioned the Rules For Rulers youtube video in one of his updates (or at the recent seminar, I cant remember now) and I enjoyed it so much that when I saw the note that it was adapted from the book I grabbed it right away.
Honesty, if you read that book (I’m 2/3 through) none of the reaction of various world governments to Covid is very surprising.
Like if the whole covid pandemic just turns out to be a half-trillion dollar handover to pharma companies for an unneeded vaccine to cure something with a .1% kill rate heavily skewed to certain groups who could have been helped by essentially risk free cheap drugs and supplements, this wouldn’t be an unusual or even a particularly dark example of how rulers behave.
OK, the scale might be larger than ever since its worldwide, but you gotta understand that rulers need their key supporters and those that won’t do dirty deeds get replaced in short order by those who will.
Read the book (at least watch the video) and you will see why this HCQ thing is an easy choice for a ruler. There are rulers who forbid charities from distributing food to starving tsunami victims until the charity pays a 300% duty on the value of the trucks they are bringing into the country. Letting thousands die while negotiating this deal is a no brainer because money is needed to keep essential supporters in line.
All you need to know about why IVM had to be suppressed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufy2AweXRkc
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