COVID "denialism" would not even exist on the scale it does if governments across the world did not blatantly use it as an opportunity to take more power for themselves and to give more money to pharmaceutical companies. As
@Osmosis Jones said, Justin Trudeau doesn't even believe his own rhetoric because he selectively wears a mask only to keep his appearances. He wanted to give himself broader taxation and budgetary powers without parliamentary oversight and now has one of the most opaque and corrupt governments in Canadian history despite campaigning on transparency. Similarly, the legacy media in the United States attempted to build cults of personality around disgraced former New York governor Andrew Cuomo (who killed thousands by send COVID patents to nursing homes to spite Trump) and Anthony Fauci, who repeated the same rhetoric because they loved the adulation the public gave them.
COVID is real, but the ones pushing the exhausted narrative are complete fakes. They should just shut up and accept that it is now endemic and going nowhere--and no, I'm not getting a booster shot that Trudeau proved is effectively useless, twice. Assuming that he caught COVID and is not using it as an excuse to hide from Parliament.