anyone remember the FBI and CIA talking about UFO sightings?
this isn't about that, it's about something a lot older.
back in the 2010's, some dude called a crazy talk show host and started panic-ranting about "extra-dimensional beings" being aware of "dangers to come", and their ability to bring everyone to safe areas but refusal to do anything, their desire to cull population centers, and their involvement in the US military specifically. They correct themselves and say government, I guess to stay on the talk show or something, but their first instinct was military.
i could spend a couple hours typing out a whole essay here about how freakishly reminiscent it is to Covid, you could respond by saying it was probably just a symptom of 2012 "end-of-the-world" paranoia, but for now, i think it would be better to talk about the more interesting thing. this stuff was super popular with conservatives back then. ufo sightings showed up on fox news a lot and conservative conspiracy theorists are still common nowadays. but despite this, and this dire warning of mass depopulation, conservatives still prioritize abstract notions of freedom and independence over survival choosing instead to make up conspiracies about the vaccines and masks. this makes no sense to me. do conservatives truly have such a small attention span what happened?
Everyone ingests "propaganda" and uses it to form opinions. Nobody is freely coming to the conclusions that they do based on "primary sources" or whatever. Don't know why anyone would be surprised that people's reaction to COVID isn't the one that the government absolutely doesn't want them to have. The whole right-wing COVID denial stuff is obviously astroturfed and promoted by the ruling class, just look at how many people with positions in media and pop culture spout it.