The sheep/control metaphor is so backwards. The compliant "sheep" are surviving. The defiant ones are charging into the slaughter. If Covid and/or the vaccine were a conspiracy to eliminate [**so-called**] free thinkers and patriots, it could not be going more beautifully according to plan. This is the intro to the article on "culling" from Wikipedia.
In biology, culling is the process of segregating organisms from a group according to desired or undesired characteristics. In animal breeding, it is the process of removing or segregating animals from a breeding stock based on specific trait. This is done to exaggerate desirable characteristics, or to remove undesirable characteristics by altering the genetic diversity of the population. For livestock and wildlife, culling often refers to the act of killing removed animals based on their individual characteristics, such as their sex or species membership, or as a means of preventing infectious disease transmission.
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