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COVID was the most disruptive event in my lifetime by a huge margin. Governments in concert exercised powers that I didn't even know they had, namely mass house arrest and mandatory medical procedures (i.e. vax). All of it was for nothing. Every government printed so much money that we are now headed towards a major economic crisis. And not only have they slowly and very quietly walked back every one of these insane rules without apology, there has been no serious investigation into the cause of all of this. Remember when you'd get banned off every social media platform for saying that it came from a lab and just recently a minor senate committee released a report saying exactly that? This is the type of stuff that makes me very upset.
On the other side of the fence, people that bought into the government and news narrative have also been left in the cold by the sudden and quiet reversals. If you believed everything they said, especially regarding antivaxxers deserving to die without medical care, the place we are in now is very strange. It is much easier on the ego to continue believing COVID is this big threat and that the government caved to pressure from those terrible anti vax people.
I already didn't have a very high opinion of government, but I am now convinced they hate their own people and want them dead. My opinion will not change unless we see mass incarceration of officials and pharma execs responsible for all of this nonsense, along with retaliation against whoever is responsible for releasing the virus in the first place. I am not holding my breath for this to happen.
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