Don't think I'm particularly cynical. In a world of 7.9 billion people it's important to keep context. 150,000 die daily, with or without covid, and 100k of those are old age. The death rate has stayed remarkably stable even with the pandemic.

Pandemics run in cycles regardless of vaccines. the last big one in 1918 was 2 years. A bad flu outbreak in the late sixties and the H1N1 in 2009 also lasted around 2 years. Covid will start to taper off near year end regardless of jabs or not.

You can't stop the spread and you can't lock people up indefinitely. The damage done to future generations will be far greater than the flu itself. The lost freedom and liberties will also likely never be relinquished. Power, like taxes, are never given back volantarily. The financial damage to working people has been enormous and will only get worse with each month of lockdowns.

And yes, the corruption of big tech, journalists and media as well as the politicians is endemic. Trust them at your own peril. If that's cynical then I am a cynic.