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Our democracy is fake.

The same government groups—the CIA and the Pentagon—that lied to create propaganda to lead us into wars and ran human experiments like Project MKUltra on regular people are still in charge.

Top politicians and elites run protected networks that shield predators and war criminals from ever going to jail.

The whole system is rigged because these politicians are in bed with giant Wall Street banks like JPMorgan Chase and Goldman Sachs, which make billions of dollars funding both sides of wars and have done so for hundreds of years.

To keep us distracted, the TV and news are controlled by huge companies like Disney and Comcast. They fill our screens with nepo babies that are sponsored by the exact corporations that are making massive profits off of global genocide and violence right now.

We are forced to watch massacre of vulnerable people and unable to do anything to stop these atrocities.

We do not live in a functional democracy.

While the world watched the virus emerge from Wuhan, social media platforms were flooded with sensationalized clips. Independent fact-checkers and news agencies quickly proved that many of these viral "collapse videos" had absolutely nothing to do with the coronavirus.

Multiple videos showing individuals collapsing on sidewalks or inside buildings were actually pre-pandemic clips of people experiencing unrelated medical emergencies, such as strokes, heart attacks, or fainting spells, which were re-captioned to spread panic.

One highly shared video supposedly showing "dead bodies waiting for pickup in Wuhan" was actually filmed over 600 miles away in Shenzhen. The people in the video were alive and sleeping on the street under blankets due to overnight queues caused by a newly implemented checkpoint permit system.

Viral clips showing people eating "bat soup" were pushed to spark outrage and blame Chinese eating habits for the outbreak. A prominent example featuring a woman eating a bat was actually filmed in 2016 in Palau for a travel show, completely unrelated to Wuhan or the pandemic.

Other videos featured dramatic, unverified footage of citizens being violently dragged away by authorities or falling flat on their faces, which lacked verifiable locations, dates, or medical context, and were often flagged as highly suspect or performative.

The multi-billion-dollar surge in global pandemic spending primarily benefited Pfizer, BioNTech, Moderna, and Sinovac, which generated unprecedented corporate revenues from vaccines and antiviral treatments developed alongside the unfolding global crisis.

The financial windfall was split across Western pharmaceutical companies backed by government purchase agreements and Chinese firms supported by domestic mandates and international exports.

Key Western Beneficiaries

• Pfizer (NYSE: PFE): Co-developed the Comirnaty mRNA vaccine with BioNTech and produced Paxlovid, an oral antiviral treatment. These two products drove Pfizer's total corporate revenue to a historic peak of over $100 billion in 2022.

• BioNTech (NASDAQ: BNTX): As the primary scientific pioneer behind the Comirnaty vaccine architecture, this German biotechnology firm shifted from a pre-pandemic net loss to billions in net profit through gross profit-splitting agreements with Pfizer.

• Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA): Transformed from a pre-revenue research-stage biotech company into a commercial powerhouse entirely on the back of its Spikevax mRNA vaccine, generating over $18 billion in product sales in 2022 alone.

• Merck (NYSE: MRK): Generated billions in global revenue by developing Lagevrio (molnupiravir), an oral antiviral treatment widely authorized for high-risk patients.

While Western companies commercialized mRNA technology, Chinese pharmaceutical operations capitalized on traditional inactivated virus formulas heavily integrated into China's state-directed pandemic response:

• Sinovac Biotech: Produced CoronaVac, which became one of the most widely deployed vaccines globally, particularly across developing nations. Sinovac's net income skyrocketed to $14.4 billion in 2021, compared to just $100 million in 2019.

• SinoPharm (China National Pharmaceutical Group): Developed two state-approved inactivated vaccines heavily utilized for China's mandatory domestic rollouts and bilateral "vaccine diplomacy" shipments to Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa.

• CanSino Biologics: Developed Convidecia, a single-dose viral vector vaccine. The company saw its revenues surge by over 10,000% in 2021 as it achieved commercial production scaling.

Revenue and Profit Impact Comparison

Pfizer

Key Pandemic Products:
Comirnaty (Vaccine), Paxlovid (Antiviral)

Avg. Pre-COVID Annual Revenue: ~$40.8 Billion

Peak Pandemic Annual Revenue (2022): $100.3 Billion

Moderna

Key Pandemic Products: Spikevax (Vaccine)

Avg. Pre-COVID Annual Revenue: ~$60 Million

Peak Pandemic Annual Revenue (2022): $19.2 Billion

Merck

Key Pandemic Products: Lagevrio (Antiviral)

Avg. Pre-COVID Annual Revenue: ~$40.7 Billion

Peak Pandemic Annual Revenue (2022): $59.3 Billion

We do not live in a functional democracy.

We do not live in a functional democracy.

Videos showing people collapsing in the streets or dead bodies lined up during the initial COVID-19 outbreak in China were widely debunked as fake, manipulated, or completely stripped of their original context.