Good post.
I was researching when the leftist anti-vaxx advocates started to recant...it looks like it was about 2011 or so...
No facts had changed—but Big Pharma started bribing and bullying their way through “opinion leaders”.
Fear was used on a culture-wide basis to manipulate an entire population. It made me think for the Nth time about how the Nazis were able to take over an advanced, well-educated country and turn it into a murder machine. I believe we saw the same dynamic at work during the COVID persecution years.
Starting with the epidemic itself, and the riots across the country, and the disappearance from store shelves of staples like toilet paper and medical alcohol (isopropyl alcohol). The universal forced wearing face masks, the social distancing, all the rest of it... used to make people feel disoriented, like strangers in their own towns and country.
I'm not the only one to say that it looked a lot like a dress rehearsal for something worse, a trial run by big government and the Deep State to see how much they could get away with.