‘Then, I realized that the majority of people in this country will comply with just about anything the government tells them if they claim it is for their own good.’
I think it would require a basis of fear for most people to buy it, and a transmissable pathogen was just the ticket for that..not sure that people are scared enough of dying from warmer weather to cut the government that much slack...
Notice that they tie every natural disaster that kills people to climate change. Indeed, it is a much harder task to scare people compared to COVID, but they are relentless in trying. It’s as if hurricanes, tornados, floods, forest fires, earthquakes, landslides, or droughts were not common or deadly prior to the 1990’s.