"Yes. And if we're all going to die, why are they still talking to us?"
Perhaps to say goodbye?
"If those conspiracy theorists in services and import distribution believed their own silly canards, they would be trying to learn to build and maintain wagons and finding horses to pull them."
The "conspiracy theory" dismissal is old and has been over-used. It is also a fallacy. To not believe in conspiracy is to not believe in organized crime.
"All of the technically inclined people are vaccinated."
I'm a former engineer at NASA, and former owner of a multi-national tech company, and I've not been vaccinated. I was socializing with the owner of multi-national aerospace company just a few days ago, and he and his wife (PhD) were adamant about not getting vaccinated.
I'm also not sure what being "technically-inclined" has to do with anything. Maybe you should try that again and replace that phrase with "nerds", to see if it works better?