I've just heard this crazy conspiracy theory about a virus being used to control the entire World population.
It's ridiculous but, despite the virus causing a condition that 99.95% of people will survive, it's very existence is going to be used by governments around the World as a way of testing the obedience of the population to it's limits.
Not only that, but simultaneously governments across the globe will conspire with massive pharmaceutical companies to engineer and deploy a mass programme of gene therapy technology wrapped up as a "vaccine" that will initially be referred to as a "magic bullet" but later be proven to be both unnecessary AND extremely dangerous.
The obvious question is "Why would billions of people allow themselves to be injected with such a substance?"
Governments around the World will embark on a round the clock, non-stop campaign of fear mongering propaganda aimed at scaring nearly 8 billion people into believing they are ALL potential serial killers if they break the rules. That they will infect and kill others if they disobey. That they MUST do as they're told "for the safety of others".
This propaganda will convince billions of people that THEY are personally responsible for the safety of EVERYONE else. They MUST NOT break the rules. They will kill people.
Initially we'll be told we need to stay at home for just a few weeks in order to "suppress the virus".
Schools will close, shops will close, as will restaurants, pubs, sports facilities, museums, cinemas etc.
In fact ONLY shops selling absolutely "essential items" will be allowed to remain open.
Heavy fines will be imposed on any transgressors.
This initial "lockdown" will run in conjunction with a series of financial assistance schemes. Not due to any benevolence from governments but to suppress the will of citizens to complain about the imposition they are forced to endure. To stop them getting restless. To quell their desire to rebel. To subdue them.
These lockdown measures will continue (in different forms) for nearly a year during which time legislation will be passed in order to compel the populance to wear a "face covering" in public places and to remain 6 feet apart from anyone they don't live with.
Additionally we will have the decision of who we allow into our own homes taken away from us.
We will be told how many people we can converse with in the park, (ALL indoor and outdoor group sports will be banned of course), and how long we can "excerise" outdoors.
We will also be informed that we are personally responsible for the ability of our health services to cope during this "pandemic". If WE step out of line the system will crumble.
And the media will go along with it. Unquestioning. Strangely compliant.
Meanwhile, we'll be informed that the "vaccines" are on their way.
We're told once the "vaccines" arrive we can start to get our old lives back.
"WE JUST NEED THE VACCINES".
By now many millions of routine health procedures will have been cancelled. Millions of essential operations will have been removed from the schedules and waiting lists for hospital treatment will increase by several thousand percent.
Mental health issues will begin to overwhelm millions of individuals and families. Suicide rates will rocket. People will begin unnecessarily dying from cancer, diabetes, heart disease and strokes because they were too scared to ask for help, believing they'd be a burden on health services or they were worried about catching the virus in hospital.
Hundreds of thousands of closed businesses will NEVER reopen.
And all the while we're told "The vaccines are coming. The vaccines are coming. The vaccines are coming".
And governments start to inject all the elderly and vulnerable.
And we're told "NOTHING has changed. The vaccines are here but nothing has changed".
Lockdown continues. Businesses remain closed. Masks are still mandatory. You still can't even THINK about getting your previous life back until EVERYONE is injected.
And just to enforce this point, new rules are imposed upon us and new penalties are introduced. Fines for "transgressors" are increased and we're even threatened with 10 years in prison if we fail to comply.
But then we all find out that the "magic bullet" is nothing of the sort.
It doesn't stop you catching the virus or passing it on to others.
It only reduces SOME of the symptoms in SOME of the people SOME of the time.
And we will need TWO doses.
More "Variants" of the virus are detected. They're given names like the "South African", the "Brazilian" and the "Kent".
We're told the "vaccines" may not be effective on the new variants.
We're told we may need THREE injections or possibly even FOUR, but these won't be available for months.
Meanwhile, everything is still shut. There is no end in sight.
And the media still refuse to question what's happening.
All around the World there are reports of people dying after receiving the "vaccine".
In the UK the number of people dying from "covid related" conditions in care homes rises threefold in two weeks.
Official figures are released regarding the reported numbers of adverse reactions from the "vaccines". The statistics are worrying.
But they're brushed aside by officials and "experts" as neither concerning or important. Nothing to do with the "vaccines". Just a coincidence.
And the media refuse to investigate.
The lockdowns continue unabated.
More people are "vaccinated". More die.More businesses fail. More people jump in front of trains.
More children suffer. More families are ripped apart.
By now we're in an endless cycle of lockdowns, restrictions, rules, fines, arrests, hope then despair, then no hope. Just the realisation that this will NEVER end.
But it's OK. It REALLY is OK.
Because the vaccines have arrived. And that was the reason for all of this from the start.
Thank God it's only a conspiracy theory.
It could never actually happen.