October 2, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary bishop of Astana in Kazakhstan, was in France for a short visit at the end of last month. He sat down with LifeSite to answer our questions on the present COVID-19 crisis, which Bishop Schneider has resulted in a “sanitary dictatorship.” He doubled down on that opinion, warning of the “slavery” that is being put into place through “absurd” measures that are even preventing people from using their reason.

In France, it is now compulsory to wear masks in all confined places open to the public, in the workplace, in churches and public transport, and outside in some city centers, and even whole cities (sometimes including their rural suburbs) such as Paris, Rennes, Bordeaux, Lyon and Nice, regardless whether one is surrounded by people or completely alone.
Speaking of compulsory facemasks, Bishop Schneider said: “The exterior sign of the mask which all the population has to wear is disproportionate. It’s an exterior sign that the entire population is submitted, and that those who govern us have now in their hands the entire population, really as obedient slaves and marionettes. This is very dangerous and should cause us deep concern.”

Bishop Schneider told LiteSite that he fears the COVID-19 pandemic is being used as a step towards “One World government” through “control” in a situation that he did not hesitate to compare with his own experience as a boy under Soviet rule. He especially underscored the degree of atheism that is being reached by exclusive concern for corporal realities.
He called on Catholics not only to pray and coalesce with all those who are standing up to the absurdity of measures that go beyond correct and normal hygiene in an epidemic situation but to bear witness to the true hope of eternal life: “There is still an eternal life: don’t panic so much in your worries that concern only the temporal life! We must give a vision even of hope and trust, that we are in the hands of God. Now the government is saying: you are in our hands, completely, we are protecting you. This is very dangerous,” said Bishop Schneider.



He also called on faithful Catholics to continue the Eucharistic Crusade he launched last July in order to do reparation for all the “outrages” against the Most Blessed Sacrament that the COVID crisis has brought with it.
For the future, Bishop Schneider suspects that in some way all governments and all people will be asked to collaborate with abortion through the compulsory administration of vaccines using cells taken from aborted babies.

“I am not affirming now that this will happen, but it is my suspicion: it appears to me realistic that this could come. This is for me the last step of Satanism: that Satan and the world government – ultimately the masonic world government – will oblige all, even the Church, to accept abortion in this way. And therefore we must resist very strongly against this, if it comes. We must even accept to be martyrs,” said Bishop Schneider.
Here below is Bishop Athanasius Schneider’s full interview. It was recorded on September 29th, feast of the Saint Michael the Archangel.
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LifeSite: Excellency, you have already answered interviews about the present sanitary situation, which you’ve called a “sanitary dictatorship.” Why do you think it is a dictatorship while it’s being presented as being favorable to the health and the wellbeing of people?
Bishop Athanasius Schneider: Because it is evident. We have to use our reason and our common sense. Never in recent history has such a situation happened where globally, in almost all countries, with very few exceptions, all have to observe exterior rules of behavior very strictly, even under threats of punishments. To an extent, that which was obvious is now proven after the first COVID period in the beginning of this year: it is proven that the victims and the diseases were not greater in comparison with flu epidemics in other years. Therefore, you have to ask yourself, why did not the governments in the previous years, when in some cases there were also some strong influenza epidemics, make the same rules? For example, there was a very strong flu epidemic in Germany two years ago, and the official numbers published by the government were 20,000 victims. Now in this year, the same level has not been reached, in Germany at least, with COVID. These are the simple facts, the evidence.
I do not deny the COVID epidemic, it exists, but you have to ask yourself why they did this now, and it is evident that they used an epidemic that is not overly exceeding previous epidemics of flu to impose such disproportionate measures upon the entire population, so that you have the sensation that you are living in a kind of a prison, or a kind of slavery. We’re even down to the details where the government prescribes where you have to stand, how much distance you have to keep, even the centimeters; you have to cover your face continuously, even though it is proven even by several independent scientists, scholars and doctors, that these masks are not so efficient in the prevention of this kind of disease.
In this way, the exterior sign of the mask which all the population have to wear is disproportionate. It’s an exterior sign that the entire population is submitted, and that those who govern us have now in their hands the entire population, really as obedient slaves and marionettes. This is very dangerous and should cause us deep concern, because this is a sign for politicians of the future measures that they can produce or invent in similar situations under the pretext of a disease, an epidemic. It is a sign that now the people are already trained, so they can in one moment literally shut up the mouth of the entire population and keep them in their homes, locked in, so that they can do what they want.
This is really an evident sign of global dictatorship which is going in the direction of One World government of which we have already had several testimonies and witnesses some years ago. A famous personality from the world of finance said it would be sufficient to have an epidemic and to spread this globally in order to establish a One World government.
[Translator’s note: French financier, counselor of successive French governments and president Emmanuel Macron’s mentor, Jacques Attali, warned in 2009 at the time of the H1N1 flu, of a foreseeable future “major pandemic:” “Before the next, inevitable one, we must not forget to put in place prevention and control mechanisms, as well as logistical procedures for the fair distribution of medicine and vaccines. To achieve that it will be necessary to establish a global police, global stocks and therefore a global tax system. We will then come to lay, much more rapidly than mere economic reason would have allowed, the foundations of an authenic world government.”]

Not to be over-dramatic, but this so-called COVID vaccine is a big enough deal that it's a hill I'm willing to die on.

I'm not taking the vaccine. They'll have to inject it into my cold, dead body. I will go down SHOOTING, defending my family. I mean it.

We all need to be armed for the coming conflict.

But Your Excellency, why are you, Bishop Strickland, Cardinal Burke, and Archbishop Vigano telling people we may not use these vaccines (and must be prepared to die rather than do so), when the SSPX is telling us it’s ok to use them??

But Your Excellency, why are you, Bishop Strickland, Cardinal Burke, and Archbishop Vigano telling people we may not use these vaccines (and must be prepared to die rather than do so), when the SSPX is telling us it’s ok to use them??

Exactly. Per another thread today, they're out-'Trad'ing the supposed-Trads.  
Deo gratias for anyone who does speak out against these vaccines.  

I won't even take their COVID test. If they try to mandate a test over a pretext of "contact tracing," I'll happily die fighting against their unconstitutional attempt to detain/arrest me. Anyone who assents to a test has already forfeited their person and God-given rights over to the enemy, and it's the process that leads to the Mark of the Beast.

If there were no fetal cells in any vaccine, ever, that still would not suggest that it be universally administered.  Natural immunities beat artificial ones in a contest, so if one has had any disease, chances are extremely high you will never get that particular disease again.  (Chickenpox is a different case because of the lifelong dormancy of the residuals, that can become shingles but which is not inevitable and rarely deadly.)

Second, you have to know your body well.  For example, I never get the flu.  Maybe I got it once or twice in childhood, but I have no memory of ever getting it in adulthood.  So for me, even if the flu vaccine were quire reliable (which it isn't), I never seek flu vaccines because I do not consider myself at high risk for the disease, given my medical history.  

This country would have already been at the herd immunity tipping point right now had there not been these widespread, vast lockdowns which only delayed herd immunity.  I believe that we are at about 30% herd immunity right now and fast approaching the effective level.

Not to be over-dramatic, but this so-called COVID vaccine is a big enough deal that it's a hill I'm willing to die on.

I'm not taking the vaccine. They'll have to inject it into my cold, dead body. I will go down SHOOTING, defending my family. I mean it.

We all need to be armed for the coming conflict.

I agree, there has to be a time when we all say "no" to these evil plots, and then prepare for whatever battle awaits.