We don't really know though what it's like to be caught off guard by propaganda so I don't see most people as quite so bad (definitely some), just kinda tragic more than anything, for example I remember seeing all the initial scare videos coming out of China, funny yet creepy shit people faking seizures on the ground in groups, but there was a lot of experimental testing online in places that only our general types were likely to be looking, pushing the idea that covid was causing dramatic mass die offs in China with people dropping dead in public left and right, remember the videos showing hazmat vans collecting dead bodies in Chinese neighborhoods etc so when covid was "here" and literally none of that actually happened it was just so flagrantly obvious that it was a hoax from the beginning especially coming from a country like China where the government passionately avoids admitting to mistakes or loss of control, but think about your typical western adult, they're focusing 100% on family and career and even dumb shit like sportsball is mostly a social thing with friends or family, they were not spending hours of their lives on reddit/chan/yt looking for weird crazy shit, when covid was "here" they had no expectations, just sudden alarm and confusion, most of us had a big head start in spotting the fuckery