Covid Christmas and Communistic Government Control

It's become obvious that the "pandemic" is directed toward social control. Why else would the powers-that-be find the need to automatically dub a new strain of the China virus more contagious than the "old" one? Locking everyone behind closed doors to work and interact via the internet (the model surging for decades--look at distance/online work schedules and learning that's been pushed since the 90s) is handing social media giants all oversight to censor and direct thought processes.  Refocusing attention on a supposedly harsher mutation of Covid adds to the shutdown mentality in a morbid attempt to dissuade protests, thereby allowing the presidential election results to stand without challenge. If it succeeds, it would be complete abdication of self-motivation and sufficiency, giving in to what is prescribed by establishment government and media be it health, financial provision or family connections, especially during the holiday season.