Strategically, they may have realized that the corporate media would refuse to end the hysteria of the pandemic if Trump was re-elected, and they could have EASILY maintained their death counters, masks, and mandates for four years. By installing Biden, it essentially forced them to wind down the pandemic or risk inspiring actual revolution against themselves. I know it seems like people “were ready to get back to normal”, and they were, but that probably only happened because the corporate media let up on the hysteria. We all saw how quickly the hysteria ended when they pulled the bait ‘n’ switch with Ukraine, and how easily they duped people into that. So it follows that if they hadn’t switched to Ukraine and instead kept pushing variants and boosters and death counts, all under a second Trump administration, it probably would have worked. But for them to shut the pandemic switch off, if Trump takes The White House back, it will be that much harder for them to start the pandemic up again. They’ve lost that momentum.