The Meme Virus is So Back, Experts Say

Don’t panic but also mask up and get in the jab line.

Is Covid-20 about to drop? The fear porn industrial complex certainly wants you to think it is. Journos are even unironically referring to this latest version of coof as if it’s an actual product launch with a release date.

This Daily Mail article has been circulating around a lot, it seems to be depicting the meme virus being back in full effect in Japan and some unsuspecting tourist from Virginia is responsible for carrying it back to the states. Is this the 2023 retelling of the Chinese man eating bat soup?

But here’s where the usual media trickery comes in - to the surprise of none of my readers, these are old photos. But most won’t even notice that nobody is actually patrolling around in a Chinese coof suit, in 2023, swabbing mask wearing boomers—or anyone for that matter.

Are you familiar with the 80/20 rule? It’s a principle in marketing that states on average, 8 out of 10 people will only read a headline copy and 2 out of 10 will read the rest. Any good marketer knows this rule. If I were to guess, it was also about 80% of the population who fully complied with the coof mandates in 2020.

Those who fell into the 20% are hardened veterans to this kind of trickery by now and can sniff it out from miles away. The 20% will look at that Daily Mail article and see that just below the comically large scare font, the caption says there was actually only a single case detected in an asymptomatic subject. Daily Mail obviously didn’t have any fitting photos that would support the fear porn they are spreading, so they recycled old ones.

So it’s clearly all theatrics, but the question is not if they going to pull it off again, it’s why are they doing this?

Allow me to answer that question in a single image:

Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson and Johnson, all the jab manufacturer stock is down between 20-25% in the past year. The fact that the Blackrock owned Biden administration is once again urging Americans to get their boosters just confirms what we already knew.

But if they know they can’t pull off mass population complacency like they did in 2020, what is the point of this? Well, its hard to see this from within the confines of the personal echo chamber we’ve developed in the past 3 years, but 51% of Americans are still convinced the pandemic isn’t over. Maybe this is an attempt at recovering lost revenue with a “dark winter” before the 2024 election cycle begins. Maybe its another distraction.

What do you think it is? Share your thoughts in the comments.