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What is brought into focus in #2O2O is how much 'following the money' leads to Identity Politics. Just as Edward Bernays turned cigarettes into symbols of female independence, Cloth Masks have been transformed into powerful avatars of science, communitarianism & righteousness https://twitter.com/TrdisOprtr/status/1333921217225560064
But just as Bernays was working for the Tobacco industry, the entire panoply of #Covid social distancing, Lockdowns & masking creates a new & limitless market for future Vaccines & invasive, expensive healthcare (see Remdesivir) monetizing natural-born immunity to Pharmaceutics.
The whole idea that health & protection from infectious diseases can be BOUGHT buy spending enough money - a http://Amazon.com model of healthcare - is that any & ALL problems of humanity can be overcome by just SPENDING MONEY.
This can be a hard sell, but that is why it is hitched to our IDENTITIES - & WHO WE ARE as a people. So it is pitched as being part & parcel of being a reasonable, intelligent & socially responsible citizen. This is TAUGHT at all the Business schools. THIS is Corporate marketing
Bernays realized that there is a lot of money to be made by businesses who take advantage of cultural mores - & from it, POWER. It wasn't by accident that BLM was universally appropriated by the corporatocracy in #2O2O - & its what they do. US politics is but a slice of this.
It is STILL believed that a female smoker is 'independent' & 'strong' - even though we know decades later, that this was a cynical (& sinister) marketing ploy. That's how difficult it will be to discredit lockdownism. It may take the rest of our lifetime. Capitalism IS the virus.
