According to Edward Snowden every academic, researcher who's looked at this pandemic, knew this was coming, because in a world where most of the people are living in crowded and polluted cities a public health crisis is more foreseeable than anything else. Even the intellgence agencies had been planning for pandemics because they used to read the reports.
Concerning the connection between air pollution and the COVID-19 mortality rate I recommend this link:
@fago/exposure-to-air-pollution-and-covid-19-mortality-in-the-united-states
Further he says that we sacrifice our capability to arrest the slide into a less liberal and less free world as authoritarianism spreads, as emergency laws proliferate, as we sacrifice our rights.
He asks if after several waves of the coronavirus these capabilities of the current measures and these datasets will not be kept. In the end he concludes:
"No matter how it is being used, what’ is being built is the architecture of oppression"
Anyone who remembers Edward Snowden's revelations in 2012 about the bugging of the population and the tapping of their data from social media platforms, their smartphones and computers and their data stored with the public authorities by the intelligence agencies, knows that he is being prosecuted precisely because of the true facts in this regard.
A mad conspiracy theorist without evidence would otherwise not be subject to prosecution under the American rule of law!
Therefore his statements are probably rather credible and serious.
Decide for yourselves what you believe.
His assertion is however confirmed by this post:
https://steempeak.com/freedom/@fago/show-resistance-to-future-expansion-of-the-surveillance-state-and-compulsory-vaccination
May the Good be with you!