The question isn't if the virus is real.

The question is do we shut down society for it..... For a virus that most people will die while having covid, not from it.

The mitigation efforts, masks and lockdowns are failures. They placate a people whose religious beliefs are statism or some version of moral relativism, that the government is in control of all the things and can keep us safe and save us by following prescribed procedures.

But.... Masks don't work well enough right now, that's why you should double mask. Or triple mask. Or... And lockdowns... Lockdowns worked so well last time, we are going to do it again.

Again, this might be part of your religious beliefs to have the govt keep you safe (whether you know it or not).. but when this is the case it's time for the country to split apart, because the constitution might be a dead document for all of us now, but I don't have the same belief system as you, and neither of us want to share a country together.