This whole thing is, and has been, about CONTROL!
Reality fully supports your conclusion as the masks/distancing/lockdowns have done nothing — absolutely nothing — to “control the spread of the virus”. My concern is that while the politicians and unelected bureaucrats are clearly quite stupid when it comes to “controlling” a virus, the “experts” don’t have that excuse as they are, well, self-identified “experts” ... so they’re just plain ol’ liars ... LIARS!
Yup, and we have people here posting dozens of pages of worldometer hysteria crap on a daily basis.