# Catherine Austin Fitts on COVID Lockdowns and a Financial Reset - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119351471066009609 - Source account: [@karma44921039](https://x.com/karma44921039) - Source language: English - Duration: 4:09 - Published: 2026-11-09 - Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset ## Transcript [0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset) According to Catherine Austin Fitz, the so-called COVID pandemic was deliberately engineered as part of a broader financial coup to reset the global banking system. [0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=9) She says COVID lockdowns were designed to accelerate this reset by wiping out small businesses and triggering a massive consolidation of wealth and market share into the hands of large corporations. [0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=20) The people who run the system have had it with pretending democracy is real, and they have been, since the mid-'90s, engineering what I call a financial coup to basically shift from a world where the bankers control monetary policy and the legislatures control fiscal policy to a world where the bankers control both monetary [0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=42) and fiscal policy. And if you come to the Solari Report, that's what we've been tracking. Now, every 80 to 120 years, the central banking system does the equivalent of a flush. [0:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=52) If you're a good plumber, you know what it means to just, you know, flush the system. [0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=56) And every 80 to 120 years, they do a reset, and we are in the middle of a reset right now. [1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=61) For 500 years, this, the Western world's been run on a central banking warfare model. [1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=66) The central banks print money, and then the military and intelligence make sure everybody takes the money and preserves liquidity. [1:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=73) So it's a central banking warfare model. [1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=75) But every 80 to 120 years, they do a reset. [1:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=78) This is something that is understood and under- you know, known by people who track monetary policy and, and, and track how the operations work. [1:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=87) And if you look at the bureaucracy that day-to-day really manages the planet for the people who run the world, it's the central banking bureaucracy and then the intelligence and military that interacts with them. [1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=98) Anyway, so we were coming into a reset. We knew that was happening, and they decided the way to do the reset was with, you know, uh, a pandemic, right? [1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=109) You shut down people with independent income, right? [1:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=113) You inject $5 to $6 trillion. That's a lot of money to go shopping with. [1:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=118) The publicly traded stocks suck up all the market share from the independent guys, right? [2:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=124) Small farm, small business, suck up the market share. [2:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=127) Think in the United States, one statistic I saw said after it was over, 39% of small businesses had gone under or gone bankrupt. [2:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=135) So you suck up their market share, and now they're squeezed. [2:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=139) They've gotta sell assets. You've got five to six trillion to go shopping with, right? So it's a massive central c- consolidation. [2:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=146) There's one great scene, I might have told you about it, where Rick Santelli is arguing with Andrew Sorkin. [2:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=153) Santelli is supposedly on the stock exchange market, and he's saying, "Wait a minute. [2:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=158) I'm walking into a shopping mall. All the small businesses are closed down, but Costco's open next door, and it's packed, and the parking lot's packed." [2:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=167) And Sorkin says, "Oh, well, that's because the virus doesn't go into Costco. [2:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=171) It just goes into small businesses. That's science." [2:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=174) There is, actually, and should be, an ongoing debate as to, you know, why a, a parking lot for a big box store, like by my house, is jam-packed, not one parking spot open. [3:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=185) Why are those people any safer than a restaurant with Plexiglass? [3:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=188) You can't tell me that shutting down, which is the easiest answer, is necessarily the only answer. [3:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=195) The difference between a big box retailer and a restaurant or, frankly, even a, a church are so different it's unbelievable. I disagree. [3:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=204) Going into a big box retailer- I disagree. You're wear- I disagree. You're wearing a mask. [3:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=208) You can have your thoughts, and I can have mine. You're required to wear a mask. [3:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=210) I disagree. It's science. I'm sorry. It's science. It's not science. [3:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=213) If you're wearing a mask, it's a different story. [3:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=215) 500 people in a Lowe's aren't any safer than 150 people in a restaurant that holds 600. [3:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=221) I don't believe it. So part of the reset was a massive consolidation, and the reason we're feeling inflation now, when they injected that five to six trillion, you would expect inflation to take off. [3:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=233) But it didn't, because you offset it with deflation by shutting down the independent guys, right? [3:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=238) And that, that gave you demand destruction, and it was only after they opened up and came back in business that the inflation started to skyrocket. [4:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/HwU7oUGOsOTG/en/catherine-austin-fitts-on-covid-lockdowns-and-a-financial-reset?t=247) So, and, and that's why.