1) 'Health Crimes', article by Spyros Manouselis Σπύρος Μανουσέλης (27.7.20). English translation by Eve Harguindey (French and Italian translations also available) http://tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=29417
A few quotes follow.
2) 'All health practices against the pandemic to date, this set of biomedical measures and practices designed to protect human societies against the new infectious agent, were not based on rigorous knowledge and research,...'
3) ...'but on widespread propaganda about a "war" against an invisible enemy, summed up in terrorist slogans broadcast daily by the media, such as "Stay home" during the first phase of the pandemic and "Stay safe" during the second phase.'
4) 'During the current pandemic (but probably afterwards) it has become clear that citizens no longer have the natural right to health that they enjoyed until yesterday, and that they are therefore legally obliged to ensure public health by all means and thus to ...'
5) ...'contribute to global "biosecurity", i.e. to respect a series of measures and new biomedical practices that are supposed to ensure the protection of human societies against any biological threat.'
6) 'In reality, as we shall see, biosafety was invented to give an illusion of security through artificial health protection, which only results in gradually depriving human beings of their social life, relying exclusively on the biomedical guarantee of their survival.'
7) 'Do the most recent public and individual health protection practices adopted to combat the new coronavirus justify the prospect of universal "biosafety"?'
8) 'Health Crimes' by Spyros Manouselis Σπύρος Μανουσέλης, translated by Eve Harguindey http://tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=29417
9) 'Health Crimes' (Υγειονομικά κακουργήματα) by Spyros Manouselis Σπύρος Μανουσέλης, English translation by Eve Harguindey http://tlaxcala-int.org/article.asp?reference=29417
10) 'Indeed, numerous psychological studies - both before and during the pandemic - confirm that prolonged confinement and forced loneliness are the most common problems of modern humans, manifesting themselves in permanent feelings of anxiety, intense discomfort...'
11) ...'and depression that affect their physical and mental health.'
12) 'It is an unbearable state of chronic anxiety which, despite the decrease in the number of cases and mortality due to the pandemic, creates in hypochondriac individuals a paranoid reaction of permanent repression of their desire to leave home, return to work and meet...'
13) ...'friends, who are automatically classified as threatening "carriers" responsible for the transmission of the coronavirus.'
14) 'In this way, however, interpersonal relationships are shaped and regulated by a culture of "universal suspicion". This, as we know, by the suffocating and therefore unnatural rules it imposes, creates only inhuman and dehumanizing relationships.'
15) '“Healthy living” as terrorism'
16) 'It is enough to be attentive to the daily declarations of governments, the forecasts of terrorist attacks & the plans of international financial organisations for the years to come, to realise that what is at stake today is not the salvation of people from the coronavirus'..
17) ..'but the panoptic and totalitarian management, through recurrent health crises, not only of the physical health but also of the socio-economic and psychological life of a plethoric human population.'
18) 'This is a new planetary hygiene that is creating social, economic and humanitarian problems that are already visibly very acute, and of which no one can guarantee that it will be less destructive to human life than the current coronavirus pandemic.' ...
19) 'For it should now be clear that the disaster now affecting us is not purely viral in nature, but is, to a very large extent ... caused by man.'
20) 'Needless to say, the extreme health practices that have been practised to date in the name of biosecurity are not based on rigorous scientific knowledge and research, but on the widespread propaganda of "war" against an invisible enemy (the new virus), which is..'
21) ..'most effectively summed up in the terrorist slogans "Stay home" of the first phase and "Stay safe" of the second phase of the pandemic, which are broadcast daily in the media.'
22) 'According to the dominant political discourse, most people have shown great restraint and discipline in the face of the new pandemic and have behaved with a "high sense of responsibility" to society. For those who, like the author of this article, are not convinced...'
23) ...'by this "flattering" assessment, the widespread acceptance and unanimous application of very unusual health safety rules against coronavirus is a very serious problem.'
24) 'The impressive readiness and speed with which most people have been willing to sacrifice their personal social needs and their deepest biological predispositions to protect their health should rather be attributed to the global misinformation..' ..
25) ..'and health terror generated around the immediate mortal danger and perhaps the uncontrolled spread of the new epidemic to themselves and their loved ones.'
26) '“Biosecurity” as health terrorism'

The first explicit formulation of the concept of "biosafety" as a central policy option to manage citizens' health in order to arbitrarily guarantee immunity against certain dangerous infectious diseases can be found..'..
27) ..'in French historian Patrick Zylberman's book ‘Tempêtes microbiennes’ (Microbial Storms) (Gallimard, 2013).
In this important book, unfortunately not translated into Greek, Zylberman, following the method of the archaeology of concepts of his professor Michel Foucault,..'..
28) ..'reconstructs in detail &in a very convincing way the most recent version,historically, of the concept of “health safety” as a dominant tool,which is elaborated and exercised, according to the historical circumstances, through two alternative but complementary scenarios:'..
29) ..'the best possible scenario and the worst possible scenario for the implementation and management of a health crisis.
As everything shows, in the current pandemic is applied exactly what Patrick Zylberman described seven years ago: ..' ..
30) ..'it is the worst possible scenario that applies to the global health crisis.
If the most inhumane and dehumanizing biosafety scenario is indeed implemented to manage the current viral crisis, then we are entitled to doubt the near future of human relations.'
31) 'After all, by definition, incorporeal and impersonal biosafety is only suitable for zombie societies. But we'll say more about this in our next article.'
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