{"id":77276,"date":"2026-08-19T12:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=77276"},"modified":"2026-08-19T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T16:57:09","slug":"brownstone-institute-president-reveals-the-truly-malevolent-reason-for-the-lockdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=77276","title":{"rendered":"<h1>Brownstone Institute President Reveals The Truly Malevolent Reason For The Lockdowns<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Tucker &#8211; founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, says\u00a0top FDA and NIH officials told him that<strong>\u00a0the purpose of the COVID-19 lockdowns were &#8220;to delay the onset of natural immunity\u2026 until after the shots were online.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/soundswild.jpg?itok=MP9v14PH\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/soundswild.jpg?itok=MP9v14PH\" data-link-option=\"0\"><picture><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"NodeBody_image__QqkYz\" src=\"https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1920,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/soundswild.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=640,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/soundswild.jpg 640w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=750,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/soundswild.jpg 750w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=828,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/soundswild.jpg 828w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1080,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/soundswild.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1200,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/soundswild.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/files.zhedge.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1920,quality=75,format=auto\/https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/soundswild.jpg 1920w\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"295\" data-nimg=\"1\" \/><\/picture><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tucker sat down for an hour-long conversation with Dr. Jessica Rose, where he says that &#8216;multiple sources&#8217; who were involved in the response confirmed the bombshell revelation &#8220;without a shadow of a doubt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As\u00a0<em>Vigilant Fox<\/em>\u00a0notes &#8211;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The lockdowns that wiped out small businesses. The school closures that sent children&#8217;s reading scores back to 1971. The plexiglass, the masking, the stay-at-home orders. None of it was about keeping us safe. \u201c<strong>It was exactly the opposite<\/strong>,\u201d as Tucker put it.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Watch:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=2087254056796352654&amp;lang=en&amp;maxWidth=560px&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fjeffrey-tucker-reveals-insidious-reason-lockdowns&amp;sessionId=e4784c82fa3ff4f5b99efb00c63b24c739ae9d03&amp;siteScreenName=zerohedge&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"2087254056796352654\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>TUCKER:\u00a0\u201cWe all have what we consider to be the most shocking feature of the COVID response. But for me, I still can\u2019t get over the fact that\u00a0<strong>I was told by top FDA, NIH officials that a major reason for social distancing, lockdowns, masking, Plexiglas, stay-at-home orders, and everything else was to\u00a0<\/strong><strong>delay the onset of natural immunity<\/strong>, to delay rising seroprevalence levels, to delay endemicity until after the shots were online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, it wasn\u2019t just that all these tactics, these sort of social engineering tactics, were designed to keep us [safe]. Well, no,\u00a0it was exactly the opposite. It was to keep us from gaining natural capacity to resist the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo that they could wait until the injection came along. So the injection could be deployed and experimented upon us and, and thereby get all the credit for having solved the issue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>That sounds like a wild conspiracy theory, but that\u2019s what they meant by \u2018flatten the curve.\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0Flatten the curve meant to prolong the pain, delay the solution. And it sounds crazy until you hear it from people who were there on the ground, in the agencies, in the companies, watching all this unfold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd multiple sources have confirmed this without a shadow of doubt in their mind that was the real purpose of the school closures, the business shutdowns, the stay-at-home orders, the travel restrictions, and everything:\u00a0to delay the point at which we would have solved, essentially solved, the problem\u00a0through natural exposure and immune upgrades.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>h\/t\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VigilantFox\/status\/2089732683513368981?s=20\">Vigilant Fox<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; give him a follow!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/jeffrey-tucker-reveals-insidious-reason-lockdowns\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/jeffrey-tucker-reveals-insidious-reason-lockdowns<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77277,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77276\/revisions\/77277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}