1. Manufacture and release your contagion. You can make it look like an accident or even blame it on the “darn animals”–you will be believed. Use your controlled media to bring the world’s attention to the One Disease. Convince your populace that dying of One Disease is qualitatively worse than dying of any of the other myriad diseases out there (even ones much more likely to kill them.)
2. Obsessively test for that One Disease and broadcast the “case” numbers constantly (even though the test does not indicate a sick patient, nor does it constitute a diagnosis of anything). Also, measure the deaths “associated with” (not necessarily from) the One Disease, and broadcast those numbers constantly. Sit back and watch the panic grow. (Even though doing the same for virtually any other disease would yield bigger and scarier numbers.)
3. Slowly remove rights, freedoms, social interaction, economic prosperity, and every other form of basic pleasure under the guise of Safety. Promise to return these (cross-your-heart) when the One Disease we now care about is “over with”. (Don’t worry… that will be never.) Be sure to remind your populace to fear one another by making them wear symbols of sickness on their faces, even if they are healthy. Praise the compliant as virtuous and caring, and they will even praise one another, increasing the social reward for compliance.
4. At the right time (preferably coinciding with a regime change and a seasonal decline in respiratory disease) provide the authorized “magic cure” Product ™. (Any of the ones you’ve had patented for the last thirty years or so should do.) Blare the “Safe and Effective!” propaganda 24/7 through all of the controlled media, social media, sports, and celebrity outlets. Watch the populace line up in the millions for your Product™ and celebrate each other doing so!
5. Suppress any other form of treatment and silence any physician who would administer or talk about it. Keep the message going that anyone who doesn’t agree with you is “Anti-Science”. (Ignore those who point out that dissension and disagreement are central to science.)
6. Demonize, ostracize, and ridicule those who don’t accept the magic cure Product™ or who question the safety, efficacy, or necessity of said Product™, or the honesty of the actors involved. Continue to blame any deaths on the non-acceptance of the magic cure Product™. Any post-Product™ injuries can be blamed on background noise or ignored. Athletes and young, working age people collapsing while in the prime of health? Ignored. Hundreds of thousands of voices crying out on social media? Silenced. Don’t even worry about the now-suppressed immunity and increased susceptibility to the One Disease. Just keep plugging away at the message, and above all, keep your populace divided, directing hate and blame away from yourself and onto anyone who does not comply with your perfect, wonderful, unquestionable, single-Product™ plan to end the One Disease.
Simple! So easy a child could do it!
(Don’t let the fact that a child could also understand it bother you in the least.)
Happy tyranny!