Making everyone stay home and be afraid of catching disease caused the US to change voting regulations so that there was a huge amount voting by drop box rather than in person. There is a new documentary about the drop box voting with new information that many people have not yet seen. If you watch the movie 2000 mules, I think it is very possible that you will know exactly why we had all the masks and lockdowns - agree with RD below that it was to get Trump out of office, but not simply by getting people not to like Trump, but by creating a system that was much more user-friendly for the party that especially wanted Trump out of office. You can buy the DVD of 2000 mules here https://2000mules.com/ but you really have to see it to fully appreciate how the drop-box ballots really worked out, then you can see why the lockdowns were necessary - the movie does not explicitly connect those dots all the way back to lockdowns, but IF there had been no Covid, we would not have had lockdowns - IF no lockdowns, you know we would not have had drop-box voting. And one party had a really great system to make that drop-box voting work really well for them. See the documentary, and you will understand.