There is a narrative where the governments of the world, the bunch of self-serving idiots that have weaselled their way on to the gravy train, and their puppet masters have realised that the world is overpopulated and decided to manufacture a pandemic so they can wipe out a good proportion of worlds inhabitants with a fake vaccine.
In this tale of course we have heroes, Guy’snGal’s who have seen through the veil, taken the right pill and have, through extensive forensic analysis of their sisters hairdressers mates twitter account (who’s in health care) and following certain maverick newshounds cleverly disguised as shrill mega-rich pricks very definitely not working for the man whilst being paid a shitload of money by the man, come to the decision not to foolishly take the poison like the vast majority of the lemmings around them. Whereas in Hollywood the stars are generally modest and attractive, in this saga they are self-broadcasting shouty red faced/necked portly and wild eyed, a cunning sub-version of the trope, very often with god on their side.
I have a big big problem with this story, it’s believable for a few lines but then it overcomplicates the plot in having the vaccine as the killer.
Any mad scientist worth his crazy hair and wireframed glasses who creates the killer bug is in tandem also making the antidote, for him and his teams’ safety and that of his mega-rich patron who will eventually betray him and throw him in a viper filled pit.
Your vaccine might be ineffective, the good stuff going to the chosen but the actual vaccines produced wouldn’t be deadly, as presumably there are many independent scientists out there who just might run theirs through a battery of tests before mainlining it and more importantly as the remaining oligarchy will need a small remnant of humanity left to till fields, iron clothes and maintain enough of a DNA reserve to stop the elites becoming interbred, (having foolishly just thrown their geneticist in a viper pit), just who do you want left to do that.
Well, I will tell you, you are going to want compliant people, those who think that the best was done to help them, the ones who took the vaccine maybe.
You are not going to want a bunch of jokers in plus sized combats and mirror shades running about in the woods trying to find that drum of hardtack they buried when Obama came to power, proudly toting their semi-auto 2nd amendments, however pathetic they would be against satellite directed missile strike and drone swarms, shouting prayers to Jehovah and looking for the Satan with a suit and clipboard that started all this so they can burn the fucker and get on with the rapture.
So next time you repost something with #jabofthebeast or read of another go-fund collection for a sad radio jockeys’ family, called early, as god is fond of listening to poorly researched bullshit interspersed with Tammy Wynette. Just reassess who it is feeding you this stuff and why.