This year we kill it: Corona Virus Thread Mark II

[Strigon]

Then you get those of us who work in fields that never CAN shut down, be it ... no, sorry, ESPECIALLY for pandemics, natural disasters, major accidents...

You meet those Social Media junkies RL. And they're just as unfiltered...

What frustrates me most at this point is that the conspiracy theorists - whatever stripe they may be - will likely never admit to being wrong.
After time has passed and things returned to normal, those saying Covid was overblown or outright fabricated will point at things and say they were right all along, and those who claimed it's all part of an elaborate conspiracy to ruin the world will either say that step one is complete, and we must be ever vigilant for step two, or that it's only through their own valiant efforts we aren't living in a dystopian hellscape.