however I believe that the mass hysteria (brain-fog/loss of common sense) that we are now experiencing will dissolve sooner than those who assume they are in control realistically expect.

Would you have expected last may that almost a year later people are still in full panic mode, still mislead by the same blatant fake news bullshit? Would you have expected that all serious scientists are still snubbed by the media and censored on social media?

I wish you were right but I dont see any indication that the media sheep are able to snap out of their mass stupidity by themselves. They are successfully hypnotized by the media, and I think its becoming even worse. The media will have no trouble to instigate hate and violence against "anti-maskers" and "COVID deniers". Already there are counter demonstrations wherever people protest against the lockdown lunacy in the west, usually antifa and similar agitators who call everybody a nazi, and the media are fully supporting this narrative. No doubt the pendulum will eventually swing back but I dont expect this happening anytime soon. I expect decades of continued and worsening lunacy, similar to the nazi regime in Germany or soviet regime in Russia. The only reason the nazi regime was so short was the extreme radicalism and recklessness of the nazis. Had they been as subtle and masked as do-gooders like leftists do the 3rd Reich could have lasted much longer and made a much deeper and more damaging impact to the German people and Europe. So in effect WW2, as horrible as it was, was probably preferable to the alternative because it made such short work of the lunacy, and cleared the air like a thunderstorm. This time there wont be a war, only decades of hopeless decline into ever more insanity and misery.

Id gladly change my mind but I dont see any indications that Im wrong.