I met with many of the maintenance staff in hospital networks who had to set up entire wings of hospitals for correct ventilation flow, sheeting, etc. They even set up testing in parking decks to keep those who tested positive out of the hospital. They ended up taking it all down after having six people at most. Six. They lost millions of dollars.
That "narrative" my friends told me included how the deaths from the flu disappeared for two years while magical COVID-1984 beat the flu.
It was outright scam from day one in order to overthrow President Trump by forcing mail-in voting.
And yet I was there personally. With other doctors. Working the delta surge in the SE
I rather enjoy when people twist themselves into pretzels to hold the narrative they need to believe. Incidentally what I have said is not mutually exclusive to some of the things you have said. But I see the judgmental ones have surfaced. They are sad, you see?