The parallel between Forsythia and Ivermectin/HCQ is unmissable, leading the most agile of conspiracy theorists to wonder whether Soderbergh’s *Contagion* was just pre-seeding the narrative in order to prejudice people against non-BigPharma-approved treatments.
The big difference being that Ivermectin and HCQ appear to have at least some therapeutic benefit against COVID.
My big take-away from this was that as early as 2009-10 when they were putting Contagion together, epidemiologists and CDC officials felt that conspiracy theorists warning against vaccines would be a huge problem when dealing with a pandemic. Many of the people Soderbergh consulted for Contagion were still working when COVID-19 hit, so I see it more as a window into that worldview.
My educated guess re: COVID is that a genetically altered coronavirus strain got loose and scared the hell out of a lot of government officials. But since officials never miss a chance to take advantage of a crisis, they used COVID to enrich their friends/donors in the Pharma industry and to clamp down on embarrassing data in the name of stopping "misinformation," "vaccine denialism," and "fake news."
At this point it's clear the Covid Conspiracy Theorists managed to get more things right than the Experts and the Settled Science.
The parallel between Forsythia and Ivermectin/HCQ is unmissable, leading the most agile of conspiracy theorists to wonder whether Soderbergh’s *Contagion* was just pre-seeding the narrative in order to prejudice people against non-BigPharma-approved treatments.
The big difference being that Ivermectin and HCQ appear to have at least some therapeutic benefit against COVID.
My big take-away from this was that as early as 2009-10 when they were putting Contagion together, epidemiologists and CDC officials felt that conspiracy theorists warning against vaccines would be a huge problem when dealing with a pandemic. Many of the people Soderbergh consulted for Contagion were still working when COVID-19 hit, so I see it more as a window into that worldview.
Oh totally. In case I wasn’t being clear (and I fear I wasn’t), I totally count myself among the “conspiracy theorists.”
My educated guess re: COVID is that a genetically altered coronavirus strain got loose and scared the hell out of a lot of government officials. But since officials never miss a chance to take advantage of a crisis, they used COVID to enrich their friends/donors in the Pharma industry and to clamp down on embarrassing data in the name of stopping "misinformation," "vaccine denialism," and "fake news."
At this point it's clear the Covid Conspiracy Theorists managed to get more things right than the Experts and the Settled Science.
It could be even worse than that, given how actively harmful the shots turned out to be.