Just to give the numbers:
2,855,000 Deaths 2019 CDC https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/provisional-tables.htm
2,835,533 Deaths as of 12/22/20 https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm (Link from OP)
Both biased sources so take it with a grain of salt https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9076331/Armed-protesters-enter-Oregon-State-Capitol-building-special-session.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/heavily-armed-far-right-mob-descends-on-oregon-capitol
If you do something you don't want to do, your living in a lie. Everyone lives in their own lie and reality to cope with being forced into something we really don't want, well at least most of us, I know of a few people who would give up their freedom to change reality and have immediate convenience. We are content with the lie we can easily accept and you don't have to see it as a bad thing as long as you agree to the terms and conditions.
Out of all the missing persons cases I have read, this is the most disturbing of them all.
There are uncontacted tribes on the Earth and in my experience if there is one extreme on one end, then there is an extreme on the other. Can't dismiss the thought of a higher more technologically advanced human society.
Look at where most oil wells are, they are on the edge of the North American craton and on the edges of fault lines. Oil is made in the Planet, for what purpose? have not a clue.