The public's overwrought fear of the virus

The graph above is supplied to us by Tristan Justice in the Federalist. He writes,

No small part of the corporate and political establishment has capitalized on the public’s overwrought fear of the virus. Democrats have used the pandemic to ram through their central-planning agenda while elite corporatists have enjoyed unimaginable profit margins as small businesses continue to suffocate. There are clear incentives among powerful people to seek a permanent pandemic, and they just might get it.

Read more here: https://thefederalist.com/2021/05/05/beware-the-permanent-pandemic-and-the-promise-of-vaccines-as-a-return-to-normal/