Public health officials in every country peddled the same garbage. I am very disappointed in countries like Japan and Singapore, whose medical establishments are smart enough to have instantly seen through the lies but pushed the same brand of Fauci/CDC fascism on their own people, anyway - and harder than US authorities did.
The CCP virus/bioweapon quickly became the platform by which big Pharma could achieve its global “trial” of mRNA jabs through making most of the population scared to death...or naively believing that submitting would lead to “freedom” from lockdowns and masking.
Full disclosure: I believe that some version/variant of mRNA will be the silver bullet for slaying most cancers; but big Pharma phear$ the end of its chemo”therapy” toxin gravy train.