I watched a talk given by professor Mattias Desmet last year where he talked about his thesis of how COVID is a "mass formation" - its similar to a form of mass hypnosis. Basically it a symptomatic response to a wide scale psychiatric emergency in our society. Something like 1 in 10 people are on some form of psychiatric medication and many more are probably unmedicated or self medicating.

You could probably find one of his talks on YouTube - bottom line is most of them enjoy this way of living and most of them don't want to go back to the way things are.

About 20% of people for various complex reasons are immune to hypnosis. Who knows the exact reasons - maybe there is a genetic component. Maybe its the way some peoples brains are structured. Maybe its due to childhood trauma. Maybe being a sperg gives you some resistance. My oldest friend who I've known since I was 5 years old had exactly the same reaction I did to all this. He knew something wasn't right from the beginning.