In the early days of the pandemic, the surgeon general tweeted, all caps, "STOP WEARING MASKS!!" Fauci gave an interview in which he agreed with a suggestion that wearing a mask could increase you chances of getting Covid, and CNN published an article claiming that masks were a "psychological coping mechanism."

The kind Vladimir Ilyich would have shot everyone here. Liberals will either try to gaslight you into thinking these things did not happen and that you're a nut for claiming it, or they will repeat the lie that the advice changed in light of new evidence, adding another to the spiral of lies that birthed the anti-mask movement. This lie validates anti-mask claims by suggesting that the government's anti-mask position was grounded in scientific evidence - and then, somehow, in the span of about two weeks, some immense yet unnamed new evidence emerged that rendered it completely, obviously false and purely the domain of nuts and conspiracy theorists.

The reality is that the anti-mask position never had any sort of evidence behind it and always belonged purely in the domain of nuts and conspiracy theorists, but the government, including top health officials, choose to knowingly lie in order to cover up the fact that pandemic preparedness supplies had been gutted and sold off. So they lied about masks and then they lied about why they had lied. This repeated betrayal of public trust in science is infuriating and earns each of them a special place in Science Hell (in addition to regular Hell for the whole mass death thing). Of course, at any point, they could have stopped the spiral of lies and own up to what happened, but then somebody important would have to take the fall for it and face actual consequences, and obviously nobody important ever faces any kind of consequences in America, no matter how many lives they destroy.

Now, if you start to smell that the CDC ghouls are full of shit, where do you turn for information? Well, for us Soros-funded globalists, we can recognize that there is a world outside of America, and the corruption of the CDC does not invalidate the entirety of science. For example, we can look at how people in China and Vietnam somehow knew to wear masks from the start, despite this mysterious phantom evidence that libs claim justified the CDC's position. We can understand that capitalism can sometimes corrupt scientific institutions, and look at information from a variety of sources with a critical eye towards ulterior motives.

But what if you're not us? What if, rather than an internationalist perspective, you have a nationalist perspective, and you fear, distrust, and look down upon other countries, especially rivals like China, who the media is actively stoking fear and distrust of? Who do you turn to then when your government is telling you blatant lies? The answer is that the next largest source in your circle is, most likely, grifters. Alex Jones types who rant and rave about the globalists and are also trying to sell you snake oil supplements. Well, for grifters, a massive pandemic is a great opportunity, especially after the government completely botches the narrative and betrays public trust. Because lying is more profitable than telling the truth, and there's nothing that stops them from lying, the truth is silenced beneath the noise and suddenly they all become anti-maskers.

The kind Vladimir Ilyich would have shot the grifters too right after purging the CDC