They need new variants, more lockdowns, more alarms about medical shortages, because once their flow of misinformation stops, it will leave a vacuum for the truth to finally hit the mainstream.
Proof? Ivermectin and HCQ could've ended this in its tracks. They are suppressing that because anything that works will leave a hole in media coverage where they won't have hysteria to peddle. Hysteria keeps the populace occupied, panicked and militarized against each other. That last sentence describes the US media in a nutshell.
I see friends around me panicking about the delta variant and considering a 3rd shot. Also, they are planning to vaccinate their 5-7 year old kids when it is available. Let's hope all this is over before it gets there.