Step one: Keep the infected and the uninfected apart. Step two: Control the narrative. For the uninfected this meant the surviving media was carefully scripted, the internet ruthlessly filtered. Information could no longer be trusted and thus it was subject to the strictest kinds of quarantine. Despite all this, news about the infected was reported not with fear or hysteria, but with pity and sympathy. It’s not their fault. Look at both sides. And obviously, keep your distance. For their safety and yours. Step three: Weaken the narrative. Make it a poorer story, make its followers doubt by
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