Conspiring Thoughts

"A good conspiracy is unprovable. I mean, if you can prove it, it means they screwed up somewhere along the line."
--Jerry Fletcher (Conspiracy Theory)

Alex Berenson touches on a question that has been nagging me for months.

Someone has looked at how ventilators damage lungs (notice you never hear about “ground glass opacity” anymore?). Someone knows why we never ran national randomized antibody tests. Someone has looked at the real comorbidities in deaths under 50.

And soon enough, all of us will.

— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) August 30, 2020

 Has the perverse behavior by public health and political actors across broad geographies been scripted, or has it resulted from unplanned cooperation among various factions that suddenly recognized common opportunity?

I used to think the latter. But the persistent, coordinated nature of the movement increasingly finds me seriously considering the former.