It wasn't all that much later when i realized it was fake af. When i saw that health minister lady at the podium say that if you died from virtually anything and you tested positive for covid or covid antibodies they would consider you a covid death, i knew it was bs. Because that is precisely the opposite of what you'd want to do to isolate victims of a very specific cause of death. Also, regarding masks, all i had to do was Google 2 things-- first, how big is a Virus? (Fraction of a micron) and secondly, What do virologists wear? It was immediately obvious-- no virus the size of a fraction of a micron will be stopped by some fucking Minnesota Vikings made by some lady on Etsy. Additionally they said it was airborne which also makes the masks pointless because the virus could just enter through the eyes like many airborne diseases. And i was thinking that back in like March. And to watch my coworkers just panic and cling on to anything MSNBC says like it's the word of God has been very unsettling.

This year has shown that the American People are emotional, reactionary, gullible, willing if not happy to rat out their neighbors to the authorities for gathering in a Constitutionally valid way, and terminally ill-fitted to think for themselves.