Corona virus, China major city lockdowns, etc.

[Niya]

A whole lot of people just can't live with the bitter reality, that they are:
"un-important... mere puppets in a corrupt, merciless system which gets worse by the minute".

I honestly don't know how people can live their entire lives and not know this. Thankfully where I'm from though it can be a very nice place to live, it's also a very "predator and prey" type of environment and we learn very early here how life really works. You know how many people I know that have been killed by their best friend or even their cousins. You cannot trust anyone out here and the only people who will every truly love you unconditionally are your parents and even then that's not always true. Everyone else is a potential enemy or somebody you can use to get ahead, either by allying with them for mutual benefit or through a more parasitical relationship where you benefit more than they do. The former is better than the latter. The latter can get you killed if you do it to the wrong person.