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Sarcasm follows: Ah yeah, Covid is a money-making scheme, because the elite ruling class of the world would prefer to profit by spreading fear, panic and forci

Sarcasm follows: Ah yeah, Covid is a money-making scheme, because the elite ruling class of the world would prefer to profit by spreading fear, panic and forcing citizens to do things they don't want (and don't worry about the backlash that cause "uprising"), rather than just to keep the whole system the same, hey they've been managing to extract profits from the labor of the poor for a few centuries that way. But keep riding that conspiracy theory train, you're close to the truth!

fooker 3y ago
That’s a immature and binary train of thought. Covid was a genuine disaster, that doesn’t mean it can’t be used as a basis of lining pockets. History is full of stories of people profiteering from misery.
- mrguyorama 3y ago
  > that doesn’t mean it can’t be used as a basis of lining pockets. And it absolutely was! See all the companies that friends and family members of Trump created and were given medical supplies to sell at steep markup! See all the PPP loans that all went to companies started last tuesday and again, cronies of public figures. Look at all the companies crying "inflation" while they spend ever more money on stock buybacks and other things, and coke is twice the price it was just a year or so ago because, surely, water or sugar got way more expensive right? Or look at Pharmaceutical shareholders who were livid that they could "only" bilk the feds for $20 a shot instead of the $130 they wanted. The reason these tests started being used daily has everything to do with the vast majority of employers saying "come in or you're fired, I don't care if you feel sick, unless you have a positive test you must come in" because keeping that 8% YoY growth is dogma.