There seems to be an enormous psychological problem that when you discover that you have been conned, you don’t want to admit that…

“Shanghai — It could be a test for something much bigger (ie., war, energy crisis) or they are truly afraid of the unrest if lots of old people were to die. Chinese people tend to get emotional and the last thing the authorities want to deal with is mobs lynching doctors in the streets.”

“if the powerful are doing something that looks incredibly stupid, self destructive and utterly insane, then it is because whatever they’re doing IS actually incredibly stupid, self destructive and utterly insane.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/whole-planet-pot-and-were-all-frogs