Any clear-eyed survey of our current situation is baffled by the abject stupidity and rampant contradictions that we are immersed in. (One example out of many: requiring masks and vaccines which don't prevent you from getting OR spreading COVID--a fact we've known for a LONG time). If you try to understand it by assuming that people are acting in good faith, but just making mistakes, etc, you can still make no sense of it, because many of these things are SO insane, you can't imagine anyone being so DUMB. There is one scenario, however, which makes sense of it all: They literally are trying to kill you.

I'm not saying this is the scenario in play. I'm saying that this scenario is at least as consistent with the observed facts as any other, and cannot be ruled out. And since it cannot be ruled out, one must live as thought it might be true.