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That the COVID pandemic changed the way the world lives is not the question, Rebekah Blocher told those attending the Republican Women of Coffee County meeting Aug. 18.

The question is whether all those changes are actually improvements, she said.

“Before COVID hit I was not political at all,” Blocher said, explaining her journey into researching the Fourth Industrial Revolution, also known as “The Great Reset.”

“Like most people I believed that the news was mostly true,” Blocher said with a smile as she told a story about watching former President Donald Trump in a televised news conference during which he briefly mentioned testing of hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment for COVID-19. “He just briefly mentioned it and said that the tests were looking good and that he hoped it works.

“I saw the next day how the media went berserk. Forbes Magazine had a story about a man who took a

hydroxychloroquine product and died. The graphic with the story was a pill pack,” she said. “But he hadn’t taken a hydroxychloroquine pill.

“He had drunk fish tank cleaner,” she said. “They are hoping that you don’t read the article and hoping that you think the man took hydroxychloroquine and died.

“That really bugged me because I thought it was really irresponsible and from that point on I started paying more attention and doing my own research,” she said, adding that through research she first learned about the concept of The Great Reset. “I started digging in deeper and it was just a jaw dropper,” she told the group, explaining that 80 percent of what she was outlining came from the World Economic Forum website.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a term coined in 2016 by Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, a 50-year-old organization comprised of world business and political leaders that meets once a year in Switzerland.

Established in 1971 as a not-for-profit foundation, WEF “engages the foremost political, business, cultural and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas,” according to the WEF website. “It is independent, impartial and not tied to any special interests. The forum strives in all its efforts to demonstrate entrepreneurship in the global public interest while upholding the highest standards of governance. Moral and intellectual integrity is at the heart of everything it does,” the WEF website says about the organization comprised of 81 countries.

In 2016 the WEF released eight predictions for the year 2030, Blocher said, displaying the list from the organization’s website. “They tell you the old way is broken and we must come up with a new way.

“You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy. Whatever you want you will rent and it will be delivered by a drone to your door step,” Blocher said, outlining the first prediction. “Shopping is a distant memory in the city of 2030.

“There will be a global price on carbon,” Blocher said, outlining the second prediction. “You will pay for the carbon that you use in this effort to make fossil fuels history.”

The third prediction is that the United States’ world dominance will be over. “We will have a handful of global powers,” she said.

The hospital as we know it will be on its way out, with fewer accidents thanks to self-driving cars and great strides in preventive and personalized medicine, Blocher said about the fourth prediction. “You won’t die waiting for an organ transplant, you’ll get one by 3-D printing.”

The fifth prediction for the year 2030 is that people will not eat as much meat. “It will be an occasional treat, not a staple for the good of the environment and our health,” she said.

“A billion people will be displaced by climate change,” Blocher said about the sixth prediction.

The seventh WEF prediction for the year 2030 is that the values that built the Western World will be tested to the breaking point, Blocher said.

By the 2030s, we’ll be ready to move humans toward Mars, Blocher said about the last prediction. Big science will help us to answer big questions about life on earth, as well as opening up practical applications for space technology.

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a way of describing the blurring of boundaries between the physical, digital and biological worlds through advances to include artificial intelligence, robotics, the Internet of Things—IoT—and genetic engineering.

IoT enables companies to automate processes and reduce labor costs. It also cuts down on waste and improves service delivery, making it less expensive to manufacture and deliver goods, as well as offering transparency into customer transactions.

IoT helps people live and work smarter and in addition to offering smart devices to automate homes, IoT provides businesses with a real-time look into how their systems really work, delivering insights into everything from the performance of machines to supply chain and logistics operations.

Amazon’s voice assistant Alexa is one of the more comprehensive IoT services, Blocher said. “When you had your temperature taken at the door it was an IoT sensor.”

Blocher said that an IoT wheelchair can inform a caregiver when a person falls out of it, “It will also keep up with the person’s weight, their heart rate and their breathing pattern,” she said. “There is an IoT refrigerator that knows when you are out of milk and orders some for you.”

Blocher noted that all the advancements can be perceived as good but in the wrong hands could lead to less privacy. “All these big awesome things come with a price. Every bit of it they track everything you do,” she said. “Smartphones already can detect changes in your gait to detect early Parkinson’s Disease, sensors in pillows to measure brain waves, cars that can detect driver blood alcohol level and drowsiness.”

Use of a thumb print, saliva or a facial recognition scan for identification can be viewed as as a sign of progress. In the wrong hands, it could be dangerous, Blocher stressed. “Get rid of the old way, usher in the new way is the focus, such as putting a fall sensor in the door or the wall. If it can monitor a fall, it can monitor any of your motions.

“Everything is moving towards electric vehicles, robotic and drone delivery. We will witness more technological change over the next decade than we have seen in the past 50 years,” Blocher said about transferring data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction.

“Do you think ‘mom and pop’ shops will be able to have drones deliver?” she asked.

Blocher said that a gradual rollout of the changes is occurring. “Because they know that if they don’t do a gradual rollout to gain acceptance, nobody would accept the changes.

“People ask what they can do? How do we fight it?” Blocher said. “I say one way to fight it is to buy local.

“I feel like small businesses are purposely being put under with policies about who is ‘essential’ and who isn’t and so now more than ever, let’s support someone who has a small business. Let’s help each other out, help our neighbors out. Grow things in a garden and share them with your neighbor.

“Let anyone who lacks wisdom ask God who gives it freely without finding fault,” Blocher said, citing the Bible book of James, chapter l, verse 5. “If you go to the Book of Job, in Chapter 28, the question is asked where can wisdom be found.

“Wisdom is the knowledge of the Lord and understanding is obedience,” Bloucher said is the answer. “Sometimes I just pray it in general. Lord give me wisdom.

“If you hear something, ask is this Biblical? Some of this sounds good but when you run it through the lens of the Bible, you see it’s flawed,” she added. “I think being close to Christ is the most important thing right now, spend time in the Bible, spend time praying and asking for wisdom.”

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