CCP - who...?

Well, it looks like we may have endured...hopefully. For those who may have just returned from a galaxy, far, far away, pretty well most of the planet is under lockdown. True to form, your lockdown is not the same as my lockdown, and we are both different to others. Sadly, this inconsistency is...consistent.
Why are we under lockdown, I hear you ask...? Well...depending on who you talk to, and then who you might be prepared to believe or trust, there is a bug going around called Whu-Flu, Chinese Virus, or the latest, COVID-19 (or as I prefer - C19). It was originally supposed to have started in some Chinese wet markets in the Whuhan area of China, but that was discounted, as it moved on to then being something out of a very dodgy bio-lab, also in Whuhan. Seems like some nice people...
We didn't know too much at the time, but it looks like there is an industry where they take a bug/germ from some form of animal, and see if it can be transferred to humans (yes, folks, this is deliberate - this no accident!) The weird part is that the Chinese Communist Party (who we are finding more about every single day) are ruling the whole of China - with an iron fist. The CCP are not nice people. No matter what face they may present to the world outside China, no matter who, in the West, they manage to coerce (or buy) to promote their CCP agenda (and yes, there is an agenda,) then the CCP are crooks, of the worst kind!
We now find out that, for years - decades - they have been quietly moving into the West, buying up here, there, and anywhere they thought they could. They are expansionist!
We now have main stream media (MSM) outlets coming down on China's side - actually treating China as the 'victim' here, and, as I say, heaven knows how many politicians and main business types have been bought into the bosom of the CCP agenda - yes, politicians - those people who we are supposed to be able to trust, with our safety and have our best interests at heart! These people have no heart - all they see are $$$ signs. The businesses are the same. A lot of companies moved their local (USA/UK/Europe/wherever) set-up to China, essentially due to saving billions of $$$. People have now lost count of the cost of this Pandemic - it is in numbers that are too high to be counted!
There is the financial cost, or course, but the human cost is huge. Thousands of businesses can now no longer operate, and they are folding. The personal costs are racking up, when company owners see so much of their life's work falling away. Suicides are up (sometimes dramatically) and show no sign of easing.
Is it worth it? That depends on what you count - it now turns out that the daily figures are nonsense. If someone dies, and has C19, then they write it up as a C19 death - which it may not be! Did they die with it, or did they die because of it? There is a HUGE difference! It means that when we listen or watch the daily results, we can ignore it - pretty well - as it's fiction!
And yet, they all continue with this fiction...small wonder that a lot of people, in a lot of places, have had enough. Yes, this bug has killed people, but so have car accidents, cancer, the normal flu outbreaks...so why is this different? It was supposed to be lockdown to flatted the curve, so that the Health industry wasn't over-whelmed by the cases - they can only deal with so much! So how has this morphed into now 'waiting for the cure', which may be a year away - or more?
The Western governments are slowly moving things along, but this is a little, possibly too late.
You cannot have the Gov paying people to stay at home - some people want to work - they need to work! We need to open up the Western world, and get to normal day to day living.