The response to the pandemic is much worse than the disease itself. It was easy to see that a mass freakout was the goal from the beginning. There's a video floating around twitter with a million views, I don't know the backstory of the guy... Supposedly from Spring 2020. Transcript, link at the bottom:

"And guess what kids, once you take your vaccine, ... they're going to tell you, sorry, the vaccine isn't effective as we thought it was going to be, so now you still gotta wear your mask, still gotta get contact traced, still have all the restrictions and social distancing, and still take your vaccine.

"And what did you get out of this? A whole year where you're not allowed to travel, your business is closed, they took your rights and freedoms, they forced a vaccine on you.

"And what happened? The same amount of people died. Everything was the exact same [...] back on lockdown [...]

"If you idiots haven't figured it out yet, it's a perpetual cycle that you never get out of. [...]"

- "CLIP FROM LAST YEAR IN THE SPRING OF 2020.THIS AGED VERY VERY WELL" - https://twitter.com/ZNeveri/status/1349460356595376133