There were pictures and diagrams of the virus. There was even art made in the virus’ likeness.
I’ve never seen a claim that COVID-19 was caused by anything other than an observable physical object. There have been many claims that it’s a manmade bioweapon and that vaccines are ineffective and harmful, but I’ve never heard of someone claiming it’s an intangible curse from God or something.
If the cure to cancer were found, like a virus to prevent deaths from COVID-19, sites like Twitter and Lemmy would spread lies and disinformation and tell people to avoid authentic facts and science.
They would try, but they would fail. COVID-19 is history now, because of vaccination, despite the best efforts of anti-vax death cultists to stop it.
Problem: most Lemmy users and communities are on lemmy.ml.
Edit: Seems this is unfortunately unlikely as the lemmy.ml instance appears to be moderated by a genocide denier and authoritarian.
Who has reportedly been banning people for calling out said genocide denial and authoritarianism.
Make a metric fuckton of money from people who are using a third-party client specifically to protect themselves from Reddit’s increasingly-toxic attempts at monetizing their participation? The only thing I’d expect that to accomplish is to convince them all that it’s time to flee to the Fediverse.
And why do it this way? They could have limited API access (and therefore usage of third-party apps) to premium Reddit accounts. I can only assume that what they really want is to get people to install the official Reddit app, presumably to collect more data than is possible through a browser or third-party app. Exactly what they plan to do with those data, I can only speculate, but it can’t be good…
I’m talking about when the government wants an excuse for shutting down public discourse. Obviously it isn’t going to prosecute itself.