Covid was never the end goal. It was always a means for world control. I have always believed that there are multiple factions within the Cabal, each with its own mode of world control. They were all scheming together and generally being jolly until Trump came along and threw a wrench and got them all competing against each other.

The end goal is a world government with complete individual control. Any faction can propose their own means and devises for this, and in the end, each faction would have had relative strength based on how much of their control mechanism stayed in place.