That one among many others, some far more sinister. It's not a conspiracy if they're telling you what they want.

They call it the Great Reset and it's all over their website and YT channel.

Yet there are people, such as the World Economic Forum who see this stuff as an exercise in re-inventing capitalism and the way the world works. This is not a conspiracy. Go watch Klaus Schwab on the WEF YT channel. They're quite open about wanting to use Covaids as a trigger for re-inventing how the world works. It's not a conspiracy if they're telling you what they want. Go look at the WEF/UN 2030 Agenda. No conspiracy when they state it out of their own mouths. I doubt this is going away any time soon. There are powerful, rich people who love this stuff and want to string it along for as long as possible.

The government located a vial of it in a lab in Philly. It should not have been there. That stuff is required to be stored in high-level labs. It was confiscated.

He's correct as regards Covaids. Traditional vaccines confer immunity (smallpox, polio, etc.). This is more of a therapeutic, a type of prophylactic, as it were, that lessens symptoms, but does not prevent infection. I'm vaccinated and have had Covaids twice, mild both times. It does take years to develop a proper immunity-conferring vaccine, with the average minimum hovering at about 4 years. We are less than two years into this madness. They will need to look at the variants and how they work before they can get a handle on this.

While you wanted a good conspiracy, I'll offer this in lieu of a conspiracy. I doubt this is going away. The people in power do really enjoy the control they are deriving from these exercises. When my daughter completes school at the end of this school year, my wife and I will be bowing out and moving to a remote mountain area. We have been saving money like mad to get away from the nonsense that is sure to be happening even 5 years from now. Like most people, I tire of the lock downs, mask mandates, coerced/forced vaccines. We are going to downsize and venture into town when we need to, but plan on raising chickens, gardens, solar, etc. This area of the US is very cheap as far as property and taxes, so even if one of us works, it's very doable. I tire of the looting that's been close, supermarket shelves missing products, crime increases, our area ever expanding, property taxation going through the roof, you name it. I just want to be left to my own devices and choose how I interact with society. Remote IT work will prove to be a Godsend. Not everyone likes rural, remote living, but we really do, and tend to visit these places when we travel, so it works for us.

While I agree with your sentiment, coercing and/or forcing people to do anything is wrong in a free society. My wife has doctor after her name, and she will tell you that she has seen heaps of hideous reactions to the various vaccines, including death of patients who died within 30 minutes of being jabbed. She's seen almost instant strokes, long-term various issues that only presented after the jab. She herself is vaccinated, as am I, but we both agree that coercion, force, harassment, and loss of jobs should not be leverage for something that kills less than 2% of the people that get it. I've had the Covaids twice. Both cases were mild and I'm in my 50s and not in perfect health. Breakthrough cases are real and happen every single day despite the "vaccine". The term vaccine used today as regards Covaids is a misnomer. Vaccine implies a drug confers immunity. It doesn't in this case. It may, indeed, lessen symptoms, but it does not act as a prophylactic in any real sense. I can understand why people do not trust the medical system. I loathe it, and my wife is in it. We both got the jab for one reason: buy time to make a little more money and we are bowing out of the modern, built-up areas in favor of remote mountain living working as remote as possible. Once the kid finishes school next year, we're done with the lock downs, insane requirements, looters, shelves half empty at the supermarket, wearing masks everywhere. We are going to take our money and head out and live peacefully in a very, very low populated area, where if I didn't want to see another person for a year, it would be very easy, as where we are going is literally 45 minutes to a Walmart, let alone much of anything else. This nonsense is not going to end. The people in power love the control. The mandates.

Regulators can control whether or not a company can operate within their territory. Russia, for example, says, "OK, Big Company X, you can operate in Russia and offer your services to our citizens, but all data on Russians must be stored on your servers hosted in Russian data centers, and that data cannot be sold to people outside of Russia." This kind of thing is commonplace and becoming more common. We are literally seeing the Internet being broken up into blocks. Russian Internet, Chinese Internet, etc. The illusion we were once under about the Internet sees the damage and routes around it is not quite how it works now.

Actually, while I agree with your sentiment, it's off base. Sure, the Democrats are the ones largely howling about control, but make no mistake, the Republicans love this crap, too, and many are guilty of lock downs, stupid demands, etc. They love the profit from the vaccines, the drugs, the insurance companies raking it in like never before. Both parties are utterly useless compared to some of their EU counterparts. I'm firmly independent in my politics. Neither party speaks for me in any real or true sense. Both care only for their elitist constituents and business cronies. We were founded by geniuses, but we are currently led by the worst possible leaders in American history. Both the current and former Trump administations are woeful, useless, and totally inept.

Big tech, while useful in the main, are scavengers. They are too big to fail in some cases, and no matter what they do, they know they can afford the fines, oversight stuff, and speed bumps imposed by various governments. A couple of billion in fines is nothing to Facebook, Google, Microsoft. Sure, they don't want to pay out, but it doesn't really affect them. What we are seeing is big tech have become modern feudal lords with the people as their vassals. We, the people, willingly give up our valuable data for "free" stuff. We align our loyalties to this or that walled-in garden, be it Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, et al. These companies don't give a hoot in hell about anyone but their accountants. Everyone awake knows that we are the product. The advertisers are the customers. Yet people flock to this crap in hordes, giving up precious data, allowing themselves to be tracked, data sold to the highest bidder, etc. There has to come a point in time where companies are limited in how large they can become in terms of control. Over the last 10 years, FAANG has bought out almost all competition. If a search engine, for example, shows promise, it's snatched up. Ditto cool little software titles. Some startups make cool stuff just for the purpose of getting bought so the founders can cash in and go their way.

Voting does nothing but satisfy confirmation bias. The issue with American politics is we, the voters, are stuck with the duopoly. Both parties are effectively right wing in nature. Sure, the Democrats claim they are left of center with all that entails, but they are really just modern centrist right. We've never had a leftist president. Not Obama, not FDR, not Kennedy. They spat out rhetoric. To Europeans, for example, who do have left parties, American Democrats are right wing. We have no social safety net in this country. None. Even the Democrats are sticking their hands in the SS pot for other things. The right in this country are not true conservatives. Not a one. If they were, they would not be advocating for spending they way they do. The American political scene is two wings of the same eagle. No wonder the bird cannot fly (correctly operating government that serves the people). Both parties are effectively right wing. People don't have a voice. Politicians and people are concerned with the same old, tired party planks that never see anything done. It's all rhetoric. Ask yourself this about the "left" politicians in office: Why is it you beg for me to vote for you, but when you get into office, you get great healthcare, annual raises, and many other perks, but the very people who elected you get thrown to the wolves with "pull yourselves up by your own bootstraps". People increasingly cannot afford what passes for healthcare in this country. Insurance companies structure this stuff to make end users the losers. Massive co-pays, insane deductibles, lifetime caps on payouts. Even Bernie Sanders is a moderate leftist compared to European counterparts. Bernie should have gotten the nomination. He was cheated out of it by the DNC who hated Bernie. Why? Because Bernie, like Trump, is not establishment in the sense they want. His loyalties and ideologies are not those of the Big Tent parties. He wasn't about profit over people, which the Big Tent Democrats are all about, just like the Big Tent Republicans, who would sell their own mothers if there was profit involved. America desperately needs a third of fourth party. Everyone needs a seat at the table regardless of what the Big Tent parties think. Europe isn't perfect, but the voters have far better representation for their taxation.