Thread by @bell00david

1/9 Debunking conspiracies.
Early 2020, conspiracy theorists predicted nonsense about compulsory masking, coerced mass vaccination (even children!), & outlandish stuff on digital currencies and government control of the right to spend & travel based on social credit scores.

2/9 Tin hats, all of them, and rightly denigrated.
We live in democracies, have human rights treaties & courts to uphold them, we elect our governments. We run them, they don’t run us. The virus kills >75yo 1000x more than children. Vax programs would be scientific, targeted.

3/9 Lockdowns were needed to flatten the curve. China had showed they worked (and we had no reason to doubt information released from China). We even had wealthy software developers who paid mathematical modelers to confirm this new public health approach was necessary.

4/9 Then Science said masks work after all, they stop aerosols like Swiss cheese. And small businesses spread Covid, and Amazon deliveries don’t. And curfews to stop people meeting at night would keep us safe. And because Covid targets fat people, we should close parks and gyms.

5/9 And because kids are poor transmitters, they are a threat to grandparents, to teachers, & the public. Kids should eat outside, stop talking, stop playing. And all old the science on faces, language and development was wrong. New Science said so. Masks were safe & effective.

6/9 And vaccines need mandating, & non-compliers should be stopped from eating in restaurants, because Scientists and Experts said the vax stops transmission, and minorities who remembered what slave-owners do should be punished. Our duty to others. Respect.

7/9 Then the Experts recommended boosters, because safe & effective vaccines don’t stop spread. Or often sickness. But that’s why they are safe & effective. Science tells us numbers are good for Covid deaths, but misleading for vaccine deaths. Mis-information threatens us all.

8/9 And governments are right, and corporations are there to help us. They care. So it’s actually good, after all, to cancel bank accounts of those who doubt such truths. Because stupidity, blindness & compliance are safer than thoughtfulness and outdated ideals like ‘freedumb’.

9/9 So in the end those who thought they were anti-fascist were fascists all along.
And the ‘fascist’ conspiracy theorists are just unable to grasp the advantages of fascism.

If everyone just did as they were told, and got injected, and shut up, we would all be safe as slaves.