What would you do? Allow society to collapse?
...Because of people posting information on the Internet? Are you joking?
I'm no Rothschild nor am I one of the investors who privately own the Federal Reserve, but if I was an elite and not
of the elite then I would do what governments should be doing with everything that's not a matter of state secrets and national security:
be transparent and truthful
You know the best way to make your spouse suspicious and untrusting of you? Don't tell them what you're doing/where you're going at 10:00pm to 2:00am and take immediate and volatile offense at their mildest of questions. Call them stupid for suspecting anything from what little information they can glean, question their trust in you and belittle them--and then keep telling them it's for their own good. Then, once aspects of what they suspected come to light, pretend that you either don't know what they're talking about or that you never told them they were stupid.
It's literal basic psychology: If you want people to heed you they need to trust you. If you want their trust then simply alleviate their concerns with truthful and open information. The killing blow of conspiracy theories is the truth. Even if you have ulterior motives, even if some lies need to be sprinkled in, don't endanger peoples' welfare with perpetual deceit and secretive gain. This thread and posts like it across the net should not be censored for being "dangerous" or "anti-vax". The information they convey should be addressed and discussed openly with reason, actual medical science and even debate. In short, transparency and truth.
INB4 "Why bother? No one would believe anyway because people just believe what they want to believe!"
And that's retarded, because that kind of thinking has been ingrained into you and everyone from early ages in order to retard both your intellect and understanding of the world.
People need a constant flow of information to allay their natural psychological inclination to grim imagination. Fear is the enemy, and transparency and truth are its killing blows in a situation like this, not MORE concealment and deceit. Telling the truth while addressing new information will also alleviate their fear. Fear is what you're confronting, not just peoples' beliefs.
You already know that they know this is the case, because that's why Fauci and Biden did a Youtube tour with "influencers". That was false transparency. I'm speaking about real transparency. And as for censorship, the more you keep lying, covering up and attacking those whose deepest concerns are incited by the bits of information which fall from between your withholding fingers, the less people will trust you. Basic.
[EDIT: When I say "you" I don't mean you specifically. I'm speaking generally.]
TL;DR What would someone do, if placed in a position of leadership, to keep "society from collapsing"? Not gaslight and censor the Internet like the CCP. Instead just follow the first rule of Sun Tzu: The Moral Law
Sun Tzu's Art of War said:
The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.