I think Covid is a hoax, this is not advice or false evidence it is my opinion

The pandemic was as horrific as the media made it out to be; I had personal friends who suffered and nearly died from it, even young ones unfortunately. Lockdowns hurt the economy, sure, but so too would it have hurt the economy if a big ol' chunk of the labor force died off. Sucks, but it was one poison or the other and we chose the less bad one.

However, I do 100% think that the pandemic allowed governments to cover their asses about gross financial mismanagement. The 2009 subprime mortgage crisis happened almost exclusively due to a lack of financial regulation, rules which had been ruled back ever since. At the same time, housing prices were skyrocketing (largely due to artificially restricted supply), actual ponzi schemes like bitcoin were at their peak, and debt markets were predicting an economic downturn. The economy collapses from an outside force, and suddenly all these finance shitstains are off the hook and nobody demands change from big business.