Wouldn't this be what you expect though? say if there wasnt a conspiracy and there was a global pandemic, why wouldn't they follow an outline by the best medical school in the world? isn't that its purpose?
Just food for thought.
Your logic is perfectly sound and, of course, I agree with you. Authorities must rely on solid contigency plans in the event of legitimate catastrophic events such as pandemics or natural disasters.
The problem I have with this document is that it heavily relies on fear and propaganda messaging as tools of social control.
The Center’s SPARS Pandemic exercise narrative comprises a futuristic scenario that illustrates communication dilemmas concerning medical countermeasures (MCMs) that could plausibly emerge in the not-so-distant future. Its purpose is to prompt users, both individually and in discussion with others, to imagine the dynamic and oftentimes conflicted circumstances in which communication around emergency MCM development, distribution, and uptake takes place. While engaged with a rigorous simulated health emergency, scenario readers have the opportunity to mentally “rehearse” responses while also weighing the implications of their actions. At the same time, readers have a chance to consider what potential measures implemented in today’s environment might avert comparable communication dilemmas or classes of dilemmas in the future.
The self-guided exercise scenario for public health communicators and risk communication researchers covers a raft of themes and associated dilemmas in risk communications, rumor control, interagency message coordination and consistency, issue management, proactive and reactive media relations, cultural competency, and ethical concerns. To ensure that the scenario accounts for rapid technological innovation and exceeds the expectations of participants, the Center’s project team gleaned information from subject matter experts, historical accounts of past medical countermeasure crises, contemporary media reports, and scholarly literature in sociology, emergency preparedness, health education, and risk and crisis communication.
The U.S. government’s response to COVID-19 appears to have been largely deployed through the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which had been basically using military grade information warfare - technology and capabilities that were designed to respond to terrorism - but deployed against a civilian population.
DHS basically defined misinformation, disinformation, malinformation, vaccine hesitancy, protests against the masks and the vaccine mandates as a form of domestic terrorism.
