It was not the media alone, working with Big Pharma, the government and Deep State, that got the unprecedented Covid mandates in place. There was a role played by organisations which one would have hoped would have taken a stand for fundamental principles of medical ethics, like the principles of informed consent and autonomy, the dignity of the individual over the masses. The churches, both Catholic and Protestant, were firmly in support of the mandates and vaxxes, although there were brave individuals who look a stand for freedom. But, the likes of the Pope, gave theological justifications for vaxxing the population, appealing to some alleged golden rule of aiding the common good. But, the common good is never aided by supporting injustice. Some US evangelicals, predictably enough made the blasphemous claim that Jesus if he was here in body today would be vaxxed, as if the Son of God who healed many lepers would be troubled by something like Covid-19! Luke 17: 11-19 is but one example, where Jesus heals ten men with leprosy:
11 Now on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus traveled along the border between Samaria and Galilee. 12 As he was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy[a] met him. They stood at a distance 13 and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!”