Peter Hitchens has a way with words, obviously enough. He has written that the Covid lockdowns were a mistake, like burning down one’s house, to destroy a wasp nest. He makes reference to a report jointly produced by experts at Johns Hopkins University in the U.S. and Lund University in Sweden, which shows that the costs of the lockdowns, measured over a range of variables, were massively greater than any benefits. While champions of the lockdowns say that millions of lives were saved, the report shows that only 1,700 lives in England and Wales in spring 2020, were saved. It was sham, but the real interesting question now is did the authorities get wind of this, but chose to double-down, or was it a grand conspiracy from the beginning? Having written about this for almost three years now, I plug for the conspiracy line. The strategy is to move away from liberal democratic ideologies, to be in line with the rise of communist China in its quest for world domination.