Through this whole thing, I keep thinking about The Simpsons Tree House of Horrors from years ago.

One of the horrors was when the family was driving down "The Miracle Mile" where all the strip malls and retail chains were. Suddenly lightning hits one of the statues, the Lard Lad donut man, and he comes to life.

Eventually the rest of these creatures of advertising do the same, chasing and tormenting all who were near.

Lisa (the little social justice warrior), starts singing a song about "Just Don't Look", and eventually all the monsters die because no one is paying attention. It's supposed to be an indictment on commercialism, but I feel it applies to this trainwreck of a public health crisis.

I guarantee you, if someone pulled the giant plug on technology, or suddenly the media all pivot to space creatures, Covid would be forgotten in 2 seconds.

Here's the Simpsons clip

https://youtu.be/DwYBXCxXCS8