The 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.