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Freedom is dead and dying. The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Democracy Index released its global freedoms index last week and found that democracies across the globe have hit “dismal” new lows in large part because of the COVID-19 outbreak and subsequent lockdown orders imposed.
The COVID restrictions, which have been in place for over two years, have “led to the normalization of emergency powers, which have tended to stay on the statute books, and accustom citizens to a huge extension of state power over large areas of public and personal life,” the report said.
The Trends Journal has reported extensively on the oppressive lockdowns that have not only proven to be ineffective but also damaging to the public’s health and economy. (See “COVID-19 LOCKDOWNS: COMPLETE POLICY FAILURES,” “LOCKDOWNS CREATE CHILD SUICIDE EPIDEMIC” and “W.H.O NOW SAYS ‘WE DO NOT ADVOCATE LOCKDOWNS.”)
Earlier this month, in an article titled, “LOCKDOWN LIES IGNORED BY PRESSTITUTES. DISMISSED BY D.C.” we reported that it has been almost totally ignored by the mainstream media that economists at Johns Hopkins University researched used meta-analysis of multiple studies and said they found that the lockdowns during the first COVID-19 wave in the U.S. and Europe only reduced mortality by 0.2 percent.
We reported:
Constitutional Rights in nations that front as democracies were shredded by political boys and girls that took complete control of their nations, states and cities… imposing draconian COVID War mandates, lacking a scintilla of science, to kill the coronavirus.
Rather than killing the virus, after destroying the lives and livelihoods of billions for two years (as we had forecast they would), the same sociopaths, psychopaths and pathological liars that started the COVID War, are, (as we had also forecast) beginning to wind it down.
The Trends Journal has reported since the start of the outbreak that lockdowns were not based on science and did more harm than good.
See:
- “EUROPE: MORE LOCKDOWNS, PROTEST, ECONOMIC HARDSHIP”
- “LOCKDOWN PROTEST RAGING. NEW LOCKDOWN ORDERS”
- “COVID-19: THE VIRUS OF GOVERNMENT SUPPRESSION”
- “QUEENSLAND: 13 NEW COVID CASES, LOCKDOWN 5.1 MILLION”
- “NEW STUDY: LOCKDOWN LUNACY”
The report blamed an “unprecedented withdrawal of civil liberties among developed democracies and authoritarian regimes alike” for the fall to 5.28 out of 10. The score marks the lowest score recorded since the survey started in 2006. (The global state of democracy came in at 5.37 in 2020.)
The EIU surveyed 167 states and territories and found that 21 were considered full democracies and 53 were seen as “flawed democracies.”
The index used 60 indicators grouped in five different categories to make its determination. The categories include electoral process and pluralism, the functioning of government, political participation, democratic political culture, and civil liberties.
About 6.4 percent of the world’s population lives in what the report identified as a “full democracy.”
VOA News reported that the U.S. fell one spot—to 26—in the ranking and was rated as a “flawed democracy.” The report also pointed out that Afghanistan, Myanmar, and North Korea are the countries with the most restrictions. Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, and New Zealand were the top five countries.
The report said the virus outbreak has “opened the door for governments to exploit the health crisis to suppress political participation.”
We’ve seen countries suspend elections and the devastating Tigrayan war in Ethiopia was started because Tigray held an election during the outbreak.
TRENDPOST: Gerald Celente said that the COVID war will end in late March to mid-April because the global economy cannot bear its weight anymore… and upcoming political elections. The financial burden on the middle class and poor has become too extreme while the super-rich saw their wealth exceed their wildest dreams. (See “COVID WAR: RICH GOT RICHER, POOR GOT POORER,” “SPOTLIGHT: BIGS GET BIGGER, RICH GET RICHER” and “AMERICANS PUMPS UP THE RICH, CHINA PUSHING THEM DOWN.”)