Virtue and Terror: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Volume 1

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Virtue and Terror: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 1 — February, 2023

by Simon Elmer

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Originally appearing between April 2020 and October 2021, these articles are a record of how, with the collaboration of a terrorised and virtuous public, a threat to public health that never existed was turned into a ‘crisis’, and on the justification of combatting it the ‘vaccination’ programme was implemented, laying the foundations for the UK biosecurity state of today. Collected in two volumes, Virtue and Terror and The New Normal, their publication marks the third anniversary since the ‘pandemic’ was officially declared by the World Health Organization in March 2020.

But they also serve a more immediate purpose. As evidence of the immense damage of both lockdown and the ‘vaccines’ to the UK population has become too overwhelming for all but the COVID-faithful to ignore, those who called loudest for their enforcement — politicians, journalists and doctors — have claimed not only that they did not know what the consequences would be but that nobody else knew either, and have made plaintive appeals for an ‘amnesty’ between the ruined, injured and bereaved and those responsible for their suffering and loss.

The data and analysis contained in these articles is a reminder that those who took the time to look knew almost from the start that the coronavirus ‘crisis’ was manufactured, that closing down the economy for two years would impoverish millions, that printing hundreds of billions of pounds to bail it out would lead to rampant inflation, that withdrawing medical diagnosis, care and treatment for two years would cause the deaths of tens of thousands of UK citizens, and that injecting experimental gene therapies into a terrorised public would kill thousands, injure millions, and have still unknown consequences for the health and lives of the British people.

If the guilty are now protesting their ignorance, they are doing so to absolve themselves of responsibility, to deny culpability for the damage and deaths, and to avoid retribution from a public coming to the realisation that we have been the object of a campaign of impoverishment and genocide being waged against us by the UK state and its global partners. These two volumes hold them to account.

List of Contents

Introduction | 1. Giorgio Agamben and the Biopolitics of COVID-19 | 2. Manufacturing Consensus: The Registering of COVID-19 Deaths | 3. The State of Emergency as a Paradigm of Government: Coronavirus Legislation, Implementation and Enforcement | 4. Lockdown: Collateral Damage in the War on COVID-19 | 5. The New Normal: What is the UK Biosecurity State? (Part 1. Programmes and Regulations) | 6. The New Normal: What is the UK Biosecurity State? (Part 2. Normalising Fear) | Afterword: Acts of Resistance | Bibliography

About the Author

Simon Elmer was born and lives in London. In 2002 he received his PhD in the History and Theory of Art from University College London, and he has taught at the universities of London, Manchester, Reading and Michigan. In 2015 he co-founded Architects for Social Housing, for which he is Head of Research. His books include The Colour of the Sacred: Georges Bataille and the Image of Sacrifice (2007); The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State (2022); The New Normal: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 2 (2023); and with Geraldine Dening, The Truth about Grenfell Tower (2017); Central Hill: A Case Study in Estate Regeneration (2018); For a Socialist Architecture: Under Capitalism (2021); and Saving St. Raphael’s Estate: The Alternative to Demolition (2022).

Publication Details

Publisher: Architects for Social Housing (February 2023)
Distributed by Lulu Press, UK
Language: English
Hardback and paperback: 328 pages
ISBN 978-1-4709-4171-0 (clothbound)
ISBN 978-1-4709-0203-2 (paperbound)
Dimensions: 15.87 x 2.54 x 23.5 cm | 15.24 x 1.94 x 22.86 cm

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Please remember, it took me 18 months to research and write these articles and another 4 months to edit them into two volumes, so please don’t share these E-books. For obvious reasons, I don’t have a publisher for books that contradict everything we’ve been told over the past three years, and this is the only way I can make some financial return on my work. Thank you. Otherwise, whatever format you purchase, I hope you find my books informative, interesting and useful.

Simon Elmer
Architects for Social Housing