The closest analogy for the early variants was a very bad Flu. Then it kept mutating to spread while becoming less deadly. No health officials talked about mutation. All of these 'health' officials deserve the noose
The food famine after the war was appalling. German women were forced to prostitute themselves to the GIs for bread. And this was 'better' side of all the soldier sexual violence.
Vietnamese comment farms are a real thing. Dystopian workers with 40 phones in front of them sitting there all day.