Jan 16, 2023
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Switzerland's Davos is here - a cabal, critics would say, of elected and unelected elites that either rule the world, or have a strong tendency to get there. Security has always played a major role during these gatherings - images of snipers in camouflage gear on top of buildings in what would otherwise be a sleepy winter resort have been coming out of Davos for years. This time, there's more than just physical security swirling around participants of an event that sums up the year-round work of the WEF to define the world for "the little people" - without bothering to ask "the little people" about it. Officials and all others wanting access to a Davos event this week, and that includes journalists, must provide a negative PCR test (the WEF is obviously still holding out), and if they either fail the test or are in no mood to present one to the "authorities" - the chip in their biometric data-