The World Economic Forum was founded in 1971 by Klaus Schwab and others to encourage so-called public-private cooperation between government and business. Most of the large corporations you could name are part of the WEF. These are the people who run the governments, news organizations, and industrial firms which power our world.(1) They hold a widely-known annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

In July 2020, the WEF published Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret’s book, Covid-19: The Great Reset (280 pp.) (2), which pleads that “without delay we need to set in motion the Great Reset. This is not a ‘nice-to-have’ but an absolute necessity.”(3) The authors declare “It is incumbent upon us to take the bull by the horns. The pandemic gives us this chance: it ‘represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine and reset our world.”(4)

The authors say their book offers a snapshot of a “crucial moment in history” and tells “what the post-pandemic world might, and perhaps should look like.”(5)

The opening lines illuminate their viewpoint:

The worldwide crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic has no parallel in modern history. We cannot be accused of hyperbole when we say it is plunging our world in its entirety and each of us individually into the most challenging times we’ve faced in generations. It is our defining moment. . . . people feel the time for reinvention has come. . . .the coronavirus pandemic marks a fundamental inflection point in our global trajectory. . . the world as we knew it in the early months of 2020 is no more, dissolved in the context of the pandemic.(6)

According to the authors, the leaders of all our institutions--government, industry, and religion--need to combine to get us through this mighty emergency. Interestingly, such a combination of agencies is mentioned in chapter 18 of the Bible’s book of Revelation, a thought to which we’ll return.

According to Schwab’s book, all humanity is engaged in a war against an invisible foe.(7) Isn’t it convenient how this covid crisis has no aggressor? Schwab urges governments and corporations to use the situation to mobilize our societal resources against this supposedly existential threat. The covid emergency is so allegedly severe that he calls on society to redefine its social contracts by giving government a larger role and elites more power, while shrinking individual rights. The authors propose that these solutions will result in the glorious advent of global prosperity, justice, and goodness. The way to that, says Schwab, is via a “macro-reset,” in which “governments will strongly encourage public-private partnerships.”(8)

And this brings us back to the stated goal of the WEF. The organization was created to encourage “public-private partnerships.” Schwab doesn’t remind his readers, however, of the one word which is conspicuously absent from his books, a much more accurate term for public-private partnerships: the word fascism. In so-called public-private partnerships, private business may act as administrator but the state controls the reins. Fascism is when the power of the purse (business, foundations, nonprofits) is merged with the power of the sword (government). This is how policy is created and imposed, and how a society reset from liberty and productivity, to executing its activities by coercion and plunder.

The reader is warned, almost relentlessly, against wasting the “opportunity” presented by the coronavirus epidemic. One might be forgiven for hearing in these warnings flavors of a grandiose program set into motion and running within a limited timeframe.

If. . . we decide to resume our lives just as before. . . the COVID-19 crisis will have gone to waste. . .(9)

. . . the COVID-19 crisis cannot go to waste. . . now is the time to enact sustainable environmental policies. . .(10)

. . . the moment must be seized to take advantage of this unique window of opportunity. . .(11)

. . . some leaders. . . take advantage of the shock inflicted by the pandemic to implement long-lasting and wider environmental changes. They will, in effect, make ‘good use’ of the pandemic by not letting the crisis go to waste.(12)

The European Green Deal launched by the European Commission is a massive endeavor and the most tangible manifestation yet of public authorities deciding not to let the COVID-19 crisis go to waste.”(13)

To Schwab and his technocrats, exploiting what they call a “rare but narrow window of opportunity” is “an absolute necessity.”

The book reads like a manual designed to reinforce measures government leaders have used these past 22 months to erase societal freedoms and advance globalist talking points. Listen to Schwab’s propaganda:

“There is nothing new about the confinement and lockdowns imposed upon much of the world to manage COVID-19.”(14)

The assertion is false; “locking down” the healthy is very new.

Schwab describes social distancing, hand washing, mask wearing, and self-isolation as the “standard tools”(15) for dealing with a pandemic. Having one’s immunity boosted, he tells us, is important. Not only are lockdowns “nothing new,” but “...creative characters thrive in lockdown. Isaac Newton, for one, flourished during the plague.”(16) “A growing number of citizens. . . favour smartphone tracking”(17) and “refusing to wear a mask in public is a moral choice, as indeed is the decision to wear one.”(18)

Covid-19: The Great Reset sustains the current heroes and victims list with which we have all become familiar, including systematic racism, George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, and repetitive complaints about inequality.

This alleged inequality is suggested to be so severe that society should renegotiate its social contract:

“As we progressively move away from the most acute moments of the crisis and begin a thorough examination of what went right and what didn’t, we should expect a lot of soul-searching that will ultimately lead to a redefinition of the terms of our social contract.”(19)

“As economies restart, there is an opportunity to embed greater societal equality and sustainability into the recovery, accelerating rather than delaying progress toward the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and unleashing a new era of prosperity.”(20)

You might recall the infamous WEF video from last year which assured us that by by 2030 we’d own nothing and we’d be happy. . .(21) Perhaps Schwab’s public-private partnership, or fascism, really does constitute a radical break with how we live!

Some might not realize what Schwab’s proposed changes to the “social contract” would mean. The “social contract” constitutes societal expectations about rights, duties, and privileges. It is absurd to say the basic rights of today’s western civilization need to be redefined--unless someone is trying to suggest that people have too much freedom.

The WEF deemphasizes individual rights; people are addressed mostly in terms of groups and collectives. Schwab writes urgently about a need to address what is the “common good.” Whenever people indicate a concern for the common good it usually means they are pursuing some agenda which increases their control over the lives of others while reducing someone else’s freedom. It seems most likely that Schwab and his self-selected "stakeholders" hope to inculcate changes that would forever alter our world and shift control into technocratic hands.

The book supports the boilerplate mainstream narratives we have grown used to. For example,

“By now, an increasing number of scientists have shown that it is in fact the destruction of biodiversity caused by humans that is the source of new viruses like COVID-19.”(22)

“the pandemic has acted as a dramatic eye-opener to the public at large on the severity of the risks related to environmental degradation and climate change.”(23)

But compelling evidence shows that SARS-COV-2 is human-engineered. As Dr. Peter Bregen points out,

“No SARS-COV has ever been found in nature. Furthermore, no SARS-CoV epidemic or other emergence of SARS-CoV among humans has ever been traced to nature but at least seven have been traced to labs, including SARS-CoV-2.”(24)

Covid 19 appears more likely the result of biologically weaponized gain-of-function research either intentionally or unintentionally released into the world. Covid 19 was never caused by the destruction of biodiversity through climate change but through the machinations of technocrats.

Schwab suggests we reframe our perception of time into BC and AC periods--before covid and after covid.(25) So we should think in time in terms of a disease (BC/AC) rather than Jesus the cure (BC/AD)? I think not.

Among other questions, Schwab asks, “Is it acceptable not to help my neighbors who are infected with COVID-19?”(26) Actually, people have often helped neighbors in times of need. But to a technocrat every problem looks like something for which only he knows the solution. Fascistic public-private partnerships are the tool he hopes to use to provide his “help.” Those determined to help you against your will are the most dangerous people you will ever meet.

Schwab claims that “a large majority of citizens around the world want economic recovery from the corona crisis to prioritize climate change.”(27) But it seems unlikely that a large majority of earth’s citizens accept the climate change narrative, and are ready to trust their economic and moral interests to banksters and technocratic tinkerers.

The last book in the Bible, in Revelation, chapter 18, describes a divine, cataclysmic, end-time judgment of Babylon and its last-day associates. An alliance of Babylon (Revelation 18:4, 21), governments (Revelation 18:3,9), and merchants (Revelation 18:3, 11-13, 15, 19, 23). It is interesting how Schwab’s public-private partnership plan (i.e. fascism) could align with that description.

Schwab claims that,

“The pandemic has forced all of us, citizens and policy-makers alike, willingly or not, to enter into a philosophical debate about how to maximize the common good in the least damaging way possible.”(28)

It seems cartoonish to think that Schwab’s “Davos man,” transnational wealth-seekers with few or no national or ethnic loyalties, are deeply concerned with the common good of society. He would prefer society to rethink the social contract and the common good, because his fascistic plan for controlling the world by elites who know better would require a shift of control from individuals to the WEF’s proposed fascist collectives.

Schwab and Malleret’s Covid-19: The Great Reset is a warning, direct from the horse’s mouth (and my apology to actual horses), that the world includes many who aren’t as smart as they think they are, and who do not love individual freedom but hate it. Drunk with imagined wisdom and power, they present themselves as would-be remodelers of civilization. They echo the builders millennia ago of the tower of Babel, who said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens” (Genesis 11:4). That tower represented an attempt to change the “social contract” God had designed. God did not permit them to complete it, nor will these tower builders see the completion of theirs!

Larry Kirkpatrick serves as pastor of the Muskegon and Fremont MI Seventh-day Adventist churches. His website is GreatControversy.org and YouTube channel is “Larry the guy from Michigan.” Every morning Larry publishes a new devotional video.