I had a funny conversation with my doctor at my last annual check-up. He said that the Biden-Harris regime’s COVID views came from “evidence”, and opposition to the Biden-Harris regime’s views came from “social media”. Well, we are finding out a lot of new things now that the Republicans are in charge. Let’s find out below which side was spreading their views with social media.

Here’s the article from Daily Signal:

Based on extensive investigations and sworn testimony, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight exposed how the Biden-Harris administration used a $900 million public relations campaign to influence how Americans understood and responded to the administration’s COVID-19 policies.

The public relations campaign became a tool for flawed narratives. Despite the administration’s promises to “follow the science,” the evidence clearly showed that the administration prioritized managing people’s perceptions over public transparency.

Big Tech social media and search engines were involved:

The October 2024 subcommittee report also unveiled a textbook example of how federal officials used taxpayer dollars to engage platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Google to advance their policy agenda. The report proved that these public officials relied upon selective data to shape public opinion that was not, in fact, supported by the existing scientific evidence.

The key point is the assertion that the COVD vaccine prevents a person from being infected by another person. The FDA was not convinced that it could prevent transmission:

The administration pursued this aggressive PR campaign despite the Food and Drug Administration’s own determination on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness. When the FDA issued an emergency use authorization for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Dec. 11, 2020, it explicitly stated that it could not affirm that the vaccine could prevent COVID-19 transmission: “At this time, data are not available to make a determination about how long the vaccine will provide protection, nor is there evidence that the vaccine prevents transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from person to person.”

The FDA repeated this message in issuing its emergency use authorizations for the Moderna vaccine on Dec. 18, 2020, and the Janssen vaccine on Feb. 27, 2021.

This information should have been given to people, but what we actually heard from the Biden-Harris was something else. But that’s not the approach that the Biden-Harris regime took.

Instead, they said this:

Nonetheless, in March 2021, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky declared that vaccinated persons “do not carry” the virus. In September 2021, falsely insisting that the pandemic was a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” President Joe Biden announced a series of unprecedented federal vaccine mandates that would have affected an estimated 100 million Americans.

Remarkably, in the teeth of mounting evidence, including the personal experiences of millions of Americans, the administration’s continuous messaging overstated vaccine effectiveness. It was not until January 2022 that the United States Supreme Court halted most of the mandates.

And they spread this message of “overstating vaccine effectiveness” on social media, which was very convincing to many people who formed their opinions from social media, and not from evidence:

Big Tech actively censored views critical of administration policy from private citizens and even other public officials. This became clear when, on July 4, 2023, in Missouri v. Biden, a federal court held that the Biden administration colluded with and coerced social media platforms to censor dissenting viewpoints on COVID-19—“a massive attack” in an apparent violation of the First Amendment.

This was later confirmed when, on Aug. 26, 2024, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote a letter to Congress in which he stated: “In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration when we didn’t agree.”

I think there is a good lesson here about whether we should form our views based on what we see in the culture. It’s possible for powerful people to harness mainstream news media, social media, Big Tech search engines, etc. and give us claims that are not supported by scientific evidence. The problem with the government doing it is that they do it with our money. They don’t have any money of their own. And remember, secular leftists don’t have any rational grounding for human rights in their accidental universe. So don’t expect them to allow free speech that is critical of their views.