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Subby
Good, bring back stuffing money in your mattress instead of a bank.
After 2360 pages I think everything has been said there is to say about this, so let me attempt to start a new topic:
The damage will inexorably come to light, everything that was said over the past 2300 pages will be filter out into mainstream awareness because everyone knows it, and the number of people that refuse to know it are finding it harder and harder to maintain their ideological reality. Their increasingly bizarre actions and statements will just hasten the process.
What are people's predictions on what will happen now?
Sadly I think very little will happen in terms of lasting change. This is not the first time something like this has happened, there has been far more egregious examples of medical and government overreach in the past 100 years, and nothing has changed, so unfortunately there's no reason to suggest that this will cause any lasting change to society or culture.
What we will most likely witness is a slow trickle, quickly morphing into the largest buck passing exercise in history as government, media, big pharma, scientists, businesses all try the Nuremberg defence of "I was just following orders" or in this case "following the science." Government will pull a Sajid David from the UK suddenly claiming they were against it the whole time and it was the evil previous government that did it all. Ultimately I think scientists will get the blame, purely because they have no PR department to defend themselves. They may even have to make a new Helsinki declaration and Pfizer might have to pay a few billion in fines but it'll just go down a another chapter in ethics textbooks.
I'd be very skeptical that there's any widespread acknowledgement of the devastating health effects for at least a decade or two. And even then it'll be held up as a success of the scientific/medico establishment for being able to detect and acknowledge it after only 10 years.
I'd love to be wrong and it to be the crux of some type of change to how society views truth and competence and refutes Marxism but I remain skeptical.