I believe the real pandemic is not actually covid despite what you may have been lead to believe. Sure, people get sick from covid or its variants, but the real culprit of how the governments around the world were able to convince their respective populace is "egoism". Those who are willingly fooling people are doing so out of their sense of superiority and entitlement to justify their lies. They want more of what they desire despite all the negative impacts they'll have on other people by spreading lies. Those who are convinced of thise lies are mainly people who do not have the capability to think beyond the interest of just themselves. Their ego is so enlarged and emboldened by the propaganda telling them that extreme self preservation at the expense of everything else is completely ok. At the root of this pandemic is the total and complete corruption of ego to the point of attacking other people for the sole purpose of extending and exerting the will of their ego at all cost. I may just be completely wrong with this theory, but that's the best I can come up with so far. And that's ok because even if you say you don't agree with me, I'll be fine and I'll still listen if you can make a coherent argument. Unfortunately, there's just too many people out there who are so convinced that they're right, they'll fight you for it.