Editing COVID-19 (section)

== Response in the United States ==

In order to obtain an Emergency Use Authorization to manufacture COVID vaccines, the FDA, CDC, other federal agencies, and mainstream media colluded to discredit medicines which were able to treat the infection, namely, the off-patent "wonderdrug" Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. If there are treatments already available and effective an EUA cannot be granted, which is why these treatments were surpressed by the federal agencies, journalists, business executives, and propagandized scientists.

Pfizer, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson were given massive grants to produce their respective vaccinations. While J&J made a traditional vaccine (from the dead virus itself, like Polio vaccines), Pfizer and AstraZeneca used a novel technology called mRNA to manufacture a synthetic set of proteins by reverse-engineering the spike protein of the SARS virus. The creator of this technology, the heavily-cited Dr. Robert Malone, disavowed the mRNA vaccines as ineffective, citing medical literature to support his argument.

Johnson and Johnson was forced to pull their traditional vaccine after reports of negative effects on pregnant mothers. Thus, American Pfizer and Oxfordian AstraZeneca were left as the only vaccinations available.

Initially, Anthony Fauci told Americans in a 60 Minutes interview that masks would be ineffective, only to walk this back months later. Though the virus could squeeze through even N95 surgical masks, he and other officials and pundits recommended wearing a mask of any kind, even ones they knew would not work such as cloth fashion masks, blue surgical masks, or KN94 masks.

Additionally, Fauci and other officials and "experts" recommended "lockdown" – everyone was told to stay in their homes, and "socially distance" at 6 (later 13) feet, even outside. These people were well aware that the virus would spread easier indoors, and that a lack of spent time outside would lead to a lack of zinc and vitamin D: both crucial vitamins for combatting COVID or any viral infection.

In many states and cities, business fired employees for not taking a vaccine, using CDC recommendations as the justification. In the name of "public health", people were barred from establishments, especially if they weren't wearing a mask of some kind. When the vaccines became widely publically available, the CDC issued vaccination cards, which became a sort of passport for restaurants, offices, business, live shows, and other establishments. In New York, 15,000 nurses were fired by governor Kathy Hochul and replaced by the National Guard for refusing to take a vaccination. In Minnesota, police were authorized to shoot anyone they caught outside, even on their own front porch, with paintballs.

Monopolists and Big Pharma in particular used the pandemic to create the largest upward transfer of wealth in human history, to the top 0.1% wealthiest people in the world. Bill Gates bought stock in Pfizer only to come out after Omicron and declare that the vaccines didn't really work well, and liquidated his 500 million in Pfizer stocks.