O/T:- ⚠️Impressed with the leadership [The UK Party Politics Thread]

[Mud Pie]

I'd say some big players in tech and security have been waiting for something like this to seize on the opportunity, the evidence is apparently out there that they were talking about this kind of thing before Covid happened, but exponential advance in bio-technology (ability to download and reproduce a virus sequences in relatively cheap labs in rogue states) was always likely to throw something like this up eventually and a bio-terrorist attack or bio-warfare can't be ruled out in future, though you'd now have the "Cry Wolf" problem because they pushed it way too far with Covid-19.

this makes total sense to me until the bolded they that assumes there was definitely, unequivocally, a conscious conspiracy planned between [...] to profit from covid. I mean, it's not like some people need incentive to capitalize on all things, even awful things like PPE in a pandemic, is it Magpies59?

By focusing on the govts, pfizer WHO, Bill Gates et al, you seem to be saying 1. they prepared to profit from a pandemic and did so, and 2. that the spontaneous urge to profit from covid is not as bad as a planned response to a pandemic. Am I reading you right?

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this makes total sense to me until the bolded they that assumes there was definitely, unequivocally, a conscious conspiracy planned between [...] to profit from covid. I mean, it's not like some people need incentive to capitalize on all things, even awful things like PPE in a pandemic, is it Magpies59?

By focusing on the govts, pfizer WHO, Bill Gates et al, you seem to be saying 1. they prepared to profit from a pandemic and did so, and 2. that the spontaneous urge to profit from covid is not as bad as a planned response to a pandemic. Am I reading you right?

Any crisis presents an opportunity to make money and leverage power, all of the big players would have foreseen this and were ready to jump on an opportunity that presented itself. It would have reached the point where they 'sort of' wanted it, and once you're there, decisions start being made that compromise security.

I think it's similar to 9/11, I don't believe for a moment that those attacks were planned and set up by the west, but they knew something was coming and maybe those in a position to make the final decisions to intervene dithered knowing in the back of their minds that some sort of attack on America would be a very convenient pretext for what ultimately followed.