The Lock Step scenario describes \u201ca world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback.\u201d In \u201c2012\u201d (i.e. two years after the report\u2019s publication), an \u201cextremely virulent and deadly\u201d strain of influenza originating with wild geese brings the world to its knees, infecting 20 percent of the global population and killing 8 million people in just seven months \u2013 \u201cthe majority of them healthy young adults.\u201d It devastates global economies and ruptures international trade. But not everyone, the Rockefeller Foundation makes clear, is hit equally.<\/p>\n
Countries of Africa, southeast Asia, and central America suffer the worst \u201cin the absence of official containment protocols\u201d \u2013 it wouldn\u2019t be the Rockefeller Foundation if someone wasn\u2019t licking their lips at the thought of a mass die-off in the Global South \u2013 but western \u201cdemocracies\u201d also pay the ultimate price. \u201cThe United States\u2019 initial policy of \u2018strongly discouraging\u2019 citizens from flying proved deadly in its leniency, accelerating the spread of the virus not just within the US but across borders,\u201d the report warns. But remove such obstacles as \u2018individual rights\u2019 and you have a recipe for surviving, even thriving in the event of a pandemic, the Foundation gushes:<\/p>\n
\u201cA few countries did fare better \u2013 China in particular. The Chinese government\u2019s quick imposition and enforcement of mandatory quarantine for all citizens, as well as its instant and near-hermetic sealing-off of all borders, saved millions of lives, stopping the spread of the virus far earlier than in other countries and enabling a swifter post-pandemic recovery.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The message is clear \u2013 police state good, freedom bad. And other governments rapidly get the message, according to the simulation. First and third world nations alike follow suit by \u201cflexing their authority\u201d and imposing quarantines, body-temperature checks, and other \u201cairtight rules and restrictions\u201d \u2013 most of which, the report is careful to note, remain in place even as the pandemic recedes into the past. \u201cIn order to protect themselves from the spread of increasingly global problems \u2013 from pandemics and transnational terrorism to environmental crises and rising poverty \u2013 leaders around the world took a firmer grip on power.\u201d<\/p>\n
This global power-grab is facilitated by a frightened citizenry who \u201cwillingly gave up some of their sovereignty \u2013 and their privacy \u2013 to more paternalistic states in exchange for greater safety and stability\u2026tolerant, and even eager, for top-down direction and oversight.\u201d Everything from tighter biometric identification to stricter industrial regulation is welcomed with open arms. It takes over a decade for people to \u201cgrow weary\u201d of the authoritarian controls imposed in the wake of the pandemic, and hints that even the civil unrest that ultimately manifests is focused on the developed world. After all, a popular uprising in the technocratic police state envisioned by the simulation would be all but impossible \u2013 as it will be in real life once 5G makes real-time total surveillance of all cities a reality.<\/p>\n
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