That seems most correct in my view also.
As I write with friends around the world, and simply show them the actual percentage “official” dead against their populations, and according to those “official” sources, they are shocked to find their own nations are also in the grip of that “threat” which is not the actual virus event, small in comparison to the perturbation of whole economies and people's lives.
You wrote, “...looks to continue even after threat from any virus is long gone.” I think that has been true for a very long time already. The “pandemic” was a construct, and game. By the numbers as I write, the “official” count comes to just about 25 one-hunredths of one percent.
Been over for a long time, except for the allied media and state agenda, a medical-industrial complex.