Looks Like a Conspiracy but Is Not a Conspiracy

Big Government, Not Big Pharma, Explains the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Moshe Yanovskiy, Yehoshua Socol

This article appeared in the Fall 2024 issue of The Independent Review.

The anti-scientific and seemingly illogical worldwide assault on freedom during the COVID “crisis” appears to have been a highly coordinated and even pre-planned action. Many have suggested that Big Pharma took over governments through direct and indirect bribery, as it was the immediate beneficiary of these policies. This reflection argues that Big Government, not Big Pharma or anyone else, was the ultimate source of the ineffective and misguided reactions to COVID-19.

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Moshe Yanovskiy
is the leading researcher at the Shomron Center for Economic Policy Research in Israel.
Yehoshua Socol
is a senior lecturer at the Jerusalem College of Technology.

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