Now is the time for left-leaning people in the US to wrap your heads around the fact that the government has been lying to you about COVID.
You know they've been lying about Epstein. You know they've been lying about ICE. You know they've been lying about racial equality and capitalism and fairness under the law and imperialism and climate change and so many other things.
THEY'VE BEEN LYING ABOUT COVID TOO.
Yes, even the scientists at the CDC. Yes, even the "good" politicians. Yes, even the well-meaning healthcare and public health professionals. Yes, even the corporate media.
COVID is an inconvenience to the people in power, because they need us to pretend everything is "back to normal" so we will continue to uphold the structures that make money for them.
You already know this. It's nothing they haven't done before. It's exactly what they're already doing with climate collapse, human rights violations, creeping authoritarianism, etc. etc. etc. You already accepted that. You just need to accept that they're doing it with COVID too.
Now is the time to accept that what you're being told to believe about COVID is also propaganda with a goal of keeping you complacent about suffering and death, in service of preserving the wealth and power of very few people. It's not really a stretch. And the research is there to prove it.
You've already done the work to learn about the rotten systems that have gotten us here. All you need to do is apply it to COVID.
I know the implications are overwhelming. You don't have to face them alone. But you do have to face them, right now. Because just like with the other large, societal issues we're grappling with, we can't make progress until we accept the full scope of the problem. And we can't do that until more good, justice-minded people do the work on this.
COVID is still killing and disabling people on a mass scale in 2026. It's not "just a cold." It never was. We cannot continue to let it rip through our communities unchallenged, without any mitigation efforts and very few effective treatments. We don't deserve to be lied to, and we don't deserve to be subjected to unnecessary suffering and death because powerful people don't care if we live or die as long as the stock market does well.
You already know they're not telling the truth about so many things. Why would COVID be any different?
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