I think we need to draw a distinction between Covid the virus, and what our self-appointed ruling elites are doing in it's name.
I'm in the UK, where recent events have made it blatantly obvious that our rulers were never worried about Covid as they partied the lockdown away. But Canada and France (with their globalist-installed pretty-boy presidents) have been really worrying.
I'm not religious, but seeing the way the Canadian authorities have tried to close down churches, trying to bankrupt them with massive fines and repeatedly arresting religious leaders who defied them (Pastor Artur, especially) has reminded me of the way that past totalitarian regimes from the Romans onwards have tried to supress all religions except worship of the Supreme Leader.
Hiya ! I live in the soft South (and glad of it), but the West Midlands isn't so bad; I've been to Barnsley, the town where the minor earthquake of 2008 did £500,000 of improvements to the town centre ;)
I don't doubt that there's a virus going around (or at least, there was in March 2020.....) although I have no idea if it was made by man or bat.
But it is the responses of the world's governments have been shocking. They assume that people are the property of the state, and that it is the state's gift to give or withhold freedom at whim. I'm not comfortable with that, I believe individuals have natural rights and should have the freedom to make their own informed choices.