The real epidemic has always been 'denial'. The heartlessness that denial causes is all around and engrained into common thinking, history and society's structures. We only need to look at the way even the 'rebels' in society complain about the lockdown only from the perspective that people are losing money, for example 'farmers', without considering that those farmers are killing millions of animals (who are just considered 'products' rather than sentient, sovereign beings).
Unconsciousness has humanity at this point, some are evolving, most will perish. We need to make the unconscious conscious.