First a trickle....Now a flood

[Goddess]

This week, the House Oversight Committee released its long-awaited report on the government’s misuse of psychological manipulation during the pandemic. It’s ugly.

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In fall 2020, the bureaucratic behemoth that is HHS deployed its vast army of overpaid health bureaucrats and outsourced critical public health communications to a “full-service behavior-change research” firm.

Not a science firm. Not a health firm. A “behavior-change research” firm. The firm’s name is the Fors Marsh Group. 

As the report’s introduction explains, for its “behavior change” services, HHS ultimately paid FMG over nine hundred million US dollars. Stop and think about that for a second. The U.S. government paid nearly a billion dollars to one company to manipulate citizens into becoming more compliant to the government.

We can quibble about the ethics of psychological manipulation and “nudging” and stuff, but those decisions were made during a pandemic, amidst a public health emergency, when lives were at stake. The important thing is their hearts were in the right place. Right? 🙄

What advanced techniques did FMG use to make the American public more compliant? What cutting-edge science did FORS bring to the HHS table, to earn their billion-dollar fee? Was it a blend of innovative AI and pioneering psychology?

Nope. They just lied.

They lied, and they exaggerated stuff, to terrify people. Their lies were so bloody awful and so preposterous that nobody would have ever listened to them — except that they put the full weight of the US government behind their lies and fearmongering to make the whole grotesque scheme work.  In doing so, they consumed every drop of historic trust earned by previous generations of hard-working public servants.

But … did they really lie? Yes. They lied. They lied like rugs. They lied tons of times. Lies like promising that vaccination would stop transmission of the virus dead in its tracks. That particular lie came from the CDC itself and sailed straight into the FMG’s advertising scripts:

FMG’s plan wasn’t innovative. It wasn’t cutting edge. A child could have done it. They’re m0r0ns. They just lied, and they leaned on Americans’ trust in government to sell their lies. And the bureaucrats running the health agencies and the country’s liberal health professionals all compliantly went right along with it all, facilitating the lies at every step.

Lies are unethical and Liars are bad people. Even, or especially, public health liars. FMG’s whole stupid program was unethical to the core.

It was also overhyped nonsense. For example, FMG’s initial proposal to HHS was founded on a single “theory” they called the “Health Belief Model.” Here’s how they dressed their so-called Health Belief Model up in fancy, academic-sounding language:

That’s not innovative, creative, cutting-edge, or even smart. All that Model says is, if you scare people by saying they’ll die, and don’t give them time to think, they’re likely to do whatever you say, especially if they already trust the person telling them what to do:

Of course, afterwards, once they figure out they’ve been had, people won’t trust the “influencers, celebrities, and sports figures” anymore, but who cares? FMG will already be rich by then.

In other words, the plan was to coerce or bribe top government officials, doctors, pastors, priests, social media stars, bloggers, vloggers, Hollywood celebrities, singers, football players, and tennis stars into lying for them. The House report included the scripts FMG prepared for actors who pretended to be covid victims.

It was all completely fake and completely outrageous.

Worse, it’s not just the billion dollars FMG got. The real cost includes Americans’ (and by extension, Canadians') lost trust in government. And the lost trust in public health. The lost trust in vaccines. The lost trust in experts. The spiked anxiety rates from the fear campaigns. The broken brains of germaphobes and medical fetishists. The cost to the children in lost educational attainment, depression, and who knows what kinds of future psychosis.

(We could continue, adding vaccine injuries, jobs lost to mandates, closed businesses, destroyed economies, inflation, and so on.)

But the important thing is FMG’s owners got paid. And they were paid well. Very well. They are now set to retire on generational wealth earned from tax dollars, all wielded as psychological weapons against citizens.

This House report was a great start toward accountability. Having documents like this is important, because they can be cited as official findings. A court is much more likely to seriously consider something from a House Oversight Report than something some lawyer says.

We’re getting there.

[User]

12 hours ago, Goddess said:

Pretty much everyone is at more risk driving to work every day than dying of covid.

Simply not true. 

That risk has changed since the pandemic first began, but far more people were dying in Canada from COVID than from car crashes on any average year. 

That risk has also been greatly mitigated BECAUSE many of those people in high risk categories are vaccinated. 

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On 10/28/2024 at 7:06 PM, Goddess said:

...psychological manipulation...

Ah the psyop dudes... 

On 10/28/2024 at 7:06 PM, Goddess said:

They just lied, and they leaned on Americans’ trust in government to sell their lies.

What trust in government? You mention this public trust several times in your post. It seems you're the one leaning on it here to underscore some tragic loss of innocence and victimhood. It wasn't a loss at all you people have been willfully throwing it away for years.  Your half of the population had been lighting itself up with conspiracy gas for 20 years before COVID ever showed up.

If I've said it once I've said it a hundred times stupidity was always COVID's favourite vector.

On 10/28/2024 at 7:06 PM, Goddess said:

The U.S. government paid nearly a billion dollars to one company to manipulate citizens into becoming more compliant to the government.

They wasted their money alright.  Maybe next time they can just put vaccine on our water or in the chem-tankers flying overhead or something.