Actually big pharma has proved itself to be disreputable many times and a blind adherence to them is a joke. I've got friends that work at Novartis and Roche that I like dearly but it doesn't change the fact that they are driven 100% by money, not altruistic dreams.
And I totally agree people should be wary of the virus, but let's not forget that people bleated in line with the government when they said it wasn't a lab leak. It's a little bit hard now to get people to give a **** even as the narrative changed.
For me the biggest impact of covid isn't the virus, isn't even the vaccines themselves it was the sheer amount of control that people gave their respective governments. A lot of amnesia is now applied to just how much overreach there was. The damage from this is immeasurable and I think it will be seen as a watershed mark in the future.
I agree with most of your post.
I think the situation was abused by the government with a mixture of ignorance and seeing how far they could push the law.
The contradictions of lockdown undermined the message and I agree this is likely the biggest factor in why many people have tuned out.
Making it illegal to be outside unless people had a valid reason. Not being able to associate with people outside of your house, while at the same time having no issue with everyone at the supermarket, or the encouragement to go to a food establishment and take your mask off!?
The government acted with complete buffoonery. They didn't want to close direct flights from hotpot places around the world, and when they eventually did they still allowed indirect connecting flights.
It was either incompetence or they deliberately wanted the virus to spread.
I suspect they didn't expect long covid, lasting symptoms, to be an issue that will become an economic burden. But they should have SARS1 had long covid symptoms too.
But even with all the government stupidity, covid is a damaging virus to your body, organs, and especially your immune system.
Covid hides inside the ACE2 histamine receptors. This is why suddenly colds, flu's, pneumonias are all becoming worse for people.
We never know which covid infection is going to take us down. It was the third one for me. First time I had covid it lasted 5 days then I returned to relative normality. Second time it took 2 months, which affected my breathing. Third time give me breathing and oxygen problems. So far 2+ years I've not returned to normal. I've picked up a high heart rate along the way.
Avoid it at all costs. Unless you are in a minority and have a genetic setup that allows you to fully repel covid with no symptoms, the majority ie susceptible. Each infection is another punch to your immune system.
