Good coverage of science denial. The main charlatans for me are national governments and corporations. They mandate education, and state indoctrination for manipulation. As the the standards of ability and general health turn out to be quite low for the wealth inequality state, they also mandate the sacrifice and culling of their majority low quality herds, by wars and general incompetence, for the good of the lessors in charge. Negligent COVID handling by so many shows a desire of nations to allow nature to thin the overpopulated herds. Declining global carrying capacity for luxury lifestyle of industrial civilisation, indicates an early mass drive to the global human slaughterhouses is in the offing.

Secretly national leaders think - thank god for COVID, finally something that can weed out more stupid and unfit from our dependents, and reduces life-years of social welfare costs, so can have more for our mates. Hints of this motive come from Australian politicians who refused to grant citizenship to migrant families with a chronically sick child, and deporting the entire family after many years in our country. No need for gas chambers then. With COVID all can be managed by design with gas-bag politicians.