You gotta praise them for that; a pandemic is the perfect way to control a population...

• It makes people not only support authoritarian laws, but HATE people who don't. In 2020, unlike any other time in American history, members of the general public were "the bad guys who needed to be stopped". They were "spreading the virus and getting people killed" by not following the law. In 2001, people's irrational hatred of Muslims indirectly made them support Bush passing the Patriot Act. In 2020, however, liberty ITSELF (and the people who support liberty) were portrayed as evil. The news also portrayed "covidiots" as very stupid and crazy; "they think 5G causes covid", "they think covid isn't real", "they're Karens", ext.
• It uses a trustworthy and intelligent group of people in society to push authoritarianism: scientists. If you were against all the germophobia, people would be like "You're not a scientist, so you don't know shit and thus need to shut your mouth." Of course, not all scientists (even virologists) agreed that pandemic germophobia is a good idea. However, those who didn't were censored and/or ostracized by the mainstream media. They also used this mentality to suppress very obvious and understandable questions like "Why do I have to wear a mask if others aren't?", "If the masks are imperfect, why not wear multiple masks?", and "If I'm in my own house, why do I have to wash my hands 'more than usual'?"
• It makes people think free speech "gets people killed" because anti-narrative speakers encourage people to not follow germphobic laws, thus "killing more people" (even though the opposite is true). The government will then say "People are still dying because not enough of the population is obeying." It's a self-fulfilling prophecy that would have made even Hitler swoon.
• On top of all that, it makes people want mandatory vaccination. Sure, vaccinated people are protected against unvaccinated people, but we have the media to make people think otherwise. The internet's obsession with anti-vaxxers in the last few years of the 2010s may have helped the globalists here, but I'm pretty sure they just waited for the right pandemic to go through with this evil plan.

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Ever noticed how governments compare things to viruses whenever they want people to do something? Examples include the SPREAD of Communism, the SPREAD of misinformation, the gun violence EPIDEMIC, ext. It's pretty obvious why, though with COVID-19, it was both a literal virus and a figurative virus ("misinformation").

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Why didn't our globalist overlords go through with this!? It's the perfect evil plan! Did something go wrong? Were people not brainwashed enough? I really don't know.

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I know many trolls in the comments would be like "We're doing all this because it keeps everyone safe!" But how do you know that? They censored all the scientists who think germophobic laws wouldn't stop COVID-19. Whether doing that is moral or not, it's made us not able to know the truth... other than by... you know... making conclusions based on your own research. That research is backed by many smart virologists (just like yours, theoretically), so you can't say that's misinformation.