At no point was I scared of the virus

I was initially scared of food shortages and government

That trend has continued. The disappointing bit has been realizing that those around me are scared of the virus and not the government.

Edit; to answer your question more properly, I knew it was fake when they went straight to total shutdown without any numbers. Every other virus or bad flu, they have a period where they close access to nursing homes and restrict visitors, and that’s all we needed to do this year. When they skipped that completely and went straight to impacting the economy I told everyone I knew that if we didn’t see people dying in the streets like the plague this was a power play. So as soon as they said “two weeks to fla-“ I knew it was a scam.

At no point was I scared of the virus

I was initially scared of food shortages and government

That trend has continued. The disappointing bit has been realizing that those around me are scared of the virus and not the government.

Edit; to answer your question more properly, I knew it was fake when they went straight to total shutdown without any numbers. Every other virus or bad flu, they have a period where they close access to nursing homes and restrict visitors, and that’s all we needed to do this year. When they skipped that completely and went straight to impacting the economy I told everyone I knew that if we didn’t see people dying in the streets like the plague this was a power play.

At no point was I scared of the virus

I was initially scared of food shortages and government

That trend has continued. The disappointing bit has been realizing that those around me are scared of the virus and not the government.