I now think that we've been lied to big time: One thing Covid was good for was to provide a cover story for massive inflation that was likely coming no matter what. I'm not saying it was released for that reason (and yes, I do think it was deliberately released) but governments worldwide certainly took full advantage of the chaos and uncertainty to pull off all kinds of devious projects that they had on the back burner. Look at how effective Covid was at ending the democracy movement in Hong Kong, for example. Massive overhang of inflation? No problem!