Sadly, every step of this pandemic and pandemic reaction has been shrouded in deception.
It is amazing that anyone on FR believed anything put out by the US GOV, Big Media, Big Tech, Big Pharma, Big Medicine, and so on.
It is hard for me to believe so many here blindly followed the media enterprise that lied to their faces for years ( e.g., Russia-gate, tax returns, or the like). Blindly followed even though they observed open real-time censorship, canceling anyone who even mildly raised questions or concerns.
In contrast, I was unsurprised to see reddit users or twitter users expressing blind-faith and zealotry in regard to the accepted/promoted covid narratives.
But seeing persons act the same here on FR was surprising.
Now with the recent revelation that the UK Army was involved in ‘counter disinformation’ actions, one can be certain that at least some those out-of-place voices were in fact agents of the government or agents of Big-Pharma/Tech/Media
Yes, I've always assumed that such was the case.