Commentary Social engineers have long aspired to perfect the world by improving humans and their living conditions. But such “improvement” can only be achieved when an “elite” segment of society has increasing control of our world. What we have seen around the globe over the past year with the advent of COVID-19, is that the “elites” have been presented with the perfect excuse to begin building the real mechanisms of social control and management. An opportunity they have seized with both hands. COVID-19 became a gift to aspiring social engineers—who chase the votes of people keen for more of a nanny state bureaucracy—by providing them with more (taxpayer-funded) welfare, services, therapy and “help.” During the pandemic, the result has been the growth of medical bureaucracies wherever social democrat politicians are in power. Chief medical officers suddenly found themselves handed the power to close borders, impose lockdowns, and create a vast …