Balancing out the COVID denialists, in intensity, if not in harm, emerged a group of, I don't know, COVID continuists? People vocally and vehemently determined that 2022, then 2023, and now 2024 are still the darkest days of spring 2020. They've dwindled as normalcy persists, but aren't yet gone.

As variants of COVID emerged in the past few years, they zealously prognosticated doom: the sheeple may have forgotten COVID, but COVID would soon show it hadn't forgotten them. Woe unto the sinners as the latest pestilence struck the land! Yet the vast misfortunes foretold never quite came about.