Fake truth always existed. Each war starts with it, history class, doctors, you name it, every vaccin and med is promoted with lies, same for food, ingredients, chemicals. It's what commercials, marketing (FOMO) is good at. Is it critical thinking or a healthy dose of skepticism? The worst I find that many labelled as conspiracy thinkers turn out to be right and not social media is restoring the bad names they gave to these people (which also says enough about the freedom of journalism).
If it comes to the period before C19, I never really noticed it. I don't listen to the news, and as my friend mentioned, lockdown, my first thought was the lockdowns known in prison. Since I already live in the countryside, I can't say I noticed any difference. Most people already knew after a few days it was fake. If the king travels and many other without masks, if the big supermarkets knew weeks before it was announced it says enough and of course, the Chinese were blamed while Fauci, an American spread the virus.

The elderly chit chatted in the middle of the supermarkets and didn't give a damn and why should they? They survived World War 2 and several epidemics (the Mexican flu was also a pandemic, which I ignored).

It was a great test to see how easy it is to spread fear and manipulate people, not to mention the disgusting things people said about those not being vaccinated. They should receive a shot through the head and would die within a few months. The opposite is true. I haven't heard one single person who blurted that out make an apology. I only see some complaints and ask for a compensation. It's interesting to see how always the saalways me people are in the spotlight. I don't have the illusion that these are the people able to think critically. For sure, WEF/ WHO, and governments are very happy with the results of the tests (and Pfizer is in court but gives one excuse after the next, why not show all the papers, hardly anyone cares today. Within two years, they come up with something else.),

The "great" thing about telling the truth after 75 years is that most who were present died, and those alive have a very short memory. The average person is not even able to remember the weather or what they ate.

You know what the history teacher of my son said before he was sacked (he refused to be vaccinated): If you are too stupid to think and life, you better die (and that's exactly what happened),