The big lesson of covid is the extent to which Big Pharma owns big Public Health, Big Media, Big Tech, and many politicians.
Agreed.
The warning signs have been there for decades.
Large corporations developed a play-book for hiding toxic side-effects of their products—but usually it was on a local or regional basis.
The playbook included:
—Massive advertising campaigns with smiling people saying how wonderful their toxic product was
—Planting fake “research” in medical journals saying their product was safe and denying that any symptoms reflected the danger of their product.
—Paying off local politicians to get them to actively support the company instead of investigating them.
—Rapid response teams to quickly identify and marginalize whistle-blowers from within the company.
—Using local media contacts to name-call local concerned citizens as “ignorant”, “anti-science” and “paranoid kooks”.
Big Business and Big Government joined together to control the population and create a new aristocracy. It’s a big club, and you ain’t it. I’d say that society is now back to about 1700 — before the Age of Enlightenment. We do as we’re told, we believe what we are told to believe. We do not think for ourselves.