Good summary, but it is not just COVID that causes people to be disconnected from reality. There is rioting and violence where real crime and violence is ignored and the political enemy and contrived crimes go viral. There is the demonization of the majority by a minority through BLM. There is illegal immigration and migrants (probably unvaccinated for anything) being secretly shipped all over the country. There is the election fraud and uncertainty that much of government and law enforcement is legitimate by half of the country and the exact contrary beliefs in the other half of the country.
RE: “”not just COVID....”” True, they were add on to the insanity that started in Feb 2020. Riots didn’t start for another 5 months and election stuff even much later. The true insanity started with COVID and the ridiculous case fatality rates they were stating....14% etc. It is well known in medicine that early CFR numbers are grossly exaggerated. Even in 2008, the CRF of swine flu was initially even higher in 2008 and also dropped to levels similar to COVID19 within a few months. The real insanity was the over-exaggeration of the covid threat.