A member of extended family got covid last year. Probably. Test was positive but the tests are garbage so who ever knows for sure. Being someone who doesn't at all care for herself as well as being a consumer of conventional news, she went to the hospital. She tweeted and facebooked about how horrible it was, played up all the symptoms to my wife, and got out of it talking about how horrible and almost deadly covid is.
Then she talked to my wife yesterday, and the topic came up about when she was sick. When she was sick in the hospital, when they treated her in the hospital. Conspicuously after the drive-by media dropped the covid narrative, it's like it suddenly vanished from her vocabulary. She wouldn't be specific about what she was sick with unlike before when she bleated it like a badge of honor. She stopped mentioning the jab that she swore her life on.
It was unreal. Are people really this deeply programmed?
I've always suspected that there's been some sophisticated brain entrainment messaging going over mass media, via TVs, phones, radios and the internet. I guess it wouldn't be beyond comprehension that a message to say "COVID is finished" went out over the same pathways.
OP, did your wife say whether the woman was really gung-ho about the Ukraine?
That's the thing, she didn't say much at all about Ukraine. She just completely memory holed Covid once the big push stopped.