Introduction / Coronavirus origins / Wuhan videos / ‘Right wing covid panic’ / Bergamo military trucks / The hammer and the dance / Shock and awe / Twitter bots / Toilet paper panic / Clap for your health service / Mask up / Covid drugs / Build back better / Storming of the German parliament / John Snow Memorandum / Vaccine promotion / Pandemic of the unvaccinated / “Vaccine passport” / Social media / Independent media / Expert interviews / Video annex
Unlike the swine flu “fake pandemic” of 2009, covid has been a real pandemic: global excess mortality since January 2020 currently stands at close to 20 million deaths or about 16% compared to normal global mortality, caused mostly, though not entirely, by the novel coronavirus. In most countries, the median age of covid deaths turned out to be close to average life expectancy. Yet in addition to a medical pandemic, covid has also been a propaganda pandemic. The following analysis reviews some of the most important pandemic PR and propaganda campaigns run by Western governments, the media, and intelligence agencies.