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@rak3re aptly identifies a sudden shift in global consensus in early March, which led to endless lockdowns. But it’s vital to realize this shift didn’t just happen; the CCP launched an entire campaign of propaganda and fraudulent science to bring it about. Let’s recap.

 2/ In late Feb., WHO was dazzled by China: “China’s uncompromising and rigorous use of non-pharmaceutical measures to contain transmission of the COVID-19 virus in multiple settings provides vital lessons for the global response”
https://t.co/nMCXBYphrz
https://t.co/dkxeEySuVH
3/ In a press conference, Bruce Aylward, head of the WHO’s China mission, told the press: “What China has demonstrated is, you have to do this. If you do it, you can save lives and prevent thousands of cases of what is a very difficult disease.”
https://t.co/KpAqMTKnEM
4/ Two days later, in an interview for China Central Television (CCTV), Aylward (who later disconnected a live interview when asked about Taiwan) put it bluntly: “Copy China’s response to COVID-19.”
https://t.co/MmAJ5Tqq7N
5/ @NYTimes immediately lapped up the WHO’s February report: “China ‘took one of the most ancient strategies and rolled out one of the most ambitious, agile and aggressive disease-containment efforts in history.’”
https://t.co/10RfPWS0Fb
6/ Tom Frieden—who has extensive China ties and supported Tedros knowing of his cholera coverups—echoed WHO, telling CNN on Feb 25: “China’s extraordinary cordon of Hubei province and other areas bought the world at least a month of lead time to prepare.”
https://t.co/TgKDMbfasi
7/ Days later, a team from Imperial College, “China’s best academic partner in the west,” led by Neil Ferguson ran a computer model forecasting 2.2 million people in the U.S. would die of COVID, and recommended months of lockdowns.
https://t.co/VxSzkcS46M
https://t.co/nAG5EUtpeZ
8/ Neil Ferguson recalled how China inspired him:

“It’s a communist one party state, we said. We couldn’t get away with it in Europe … And then Italy did it. And we realised we could… If China had not done it, the year would have been very different.”
https://t.co/0BV3NKLcZ8
9/ Days later, the WHO released guidance citing Chinese journal articles claiming that “Chinese expert consensus” called for “invasive mechanical ventilation” as the “first choice” for people with respiratory distress.
https://t.co/EF9UxBerrf
10/ Chinese journal articles even claimed the coronavirus was so brand-spankin’ novel that, unlike other viruses, it could spread asymptomatically. Per WHO: “Early data from China suggested that people without symptoms could infect others.”
https://t.co/qgJPDOFKAf
11/ On March 4, Bar-Yam et al launched the website https://t.co/UHVGRLZD4m, which was quickly translated into 17 languages, urging countries around the world to emulate China's lockdowns.
https://t.co/f9xmtnGziE
12/ On March 10, Tomas Pueyo published an article that instantly went viral, urging leaders to emulate China and clairvoyantly predicting that “in 2 to 4 weeks” the “entire world” would be “in lockdown,” even though WHO hadn’t yet declared a pandemic.
https://t.co/vY2hlHxvKd
13/ At that same time, the entire world was suddenly bombarded with propaganda extolling China’s draconian lockdown measures.
https://t.co/BEOkiFXq6U
14/ Beginning March 12, hundreds of thousands of state-sponsored social media posts admired China’s lockdowns and demanded governments around the world emulate them, denigrating countries and leaders who failed to follow.
15/ Beginning March 13, Boris Johnson’s Twitter feed was stormed by suspicious accounts likening his initial herd-immunity-focused plan to genocide.
16/ Chinese state media conspicuously and simultaneously echoed the exact same sentiments of the bots storming Boris Johnson’s feed, on March 14 describing “herd immunity” as a “strategy” violating “human rights.”
https://t.co/RotxKiKNnz
17/ Chinese state media simultaneously bombarded Facebook with ads advertising China’s pandemic response, all of which ran without Facebook’s required political disclaimer.
https://t.co/4Xs295P6z2
18/ When Italy became the first country outside China to lock down, Chinese experts arrived on March 12 and two days later advised a tighter lockdown: “There are still too many people and behaviors on the street to improve.”
https://t.co/l0x0MybNXI
19/ On March 15, bots began wildly sharing a YouTube video they called a "message from the future" showing Italians with "a message to themselves from 10 days prior" gaining 8,300,000 views.

It said, "the US, England, France, Spain and Germany are about 9-10 days behind Italy"
20/ And that’s just the evidence we know so far, which likely barely scratches the surface of the shenanigans that took place. For example, there was likely just as much influence and collaboration taking place in foreign languages.
21/ All this took place between Feb 24 and March 15. So we don’t have to scratch our heads as to how the consensus to copy China’s lockdowns emerged so rapidly in those days. We know.

The rest is human psychology.
/end
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