I've considered why TPTB would want to eliminate their clueless and obediant sheep, and I imagine it's because IF this is a depopulation event, then they're gonna be aiming for a Grand majority (think the Georgia Guidestones suggesting a global population of 500M, or other sources I've heard say they're aiming for the 1B mark). That means eliminating a fuck-ton of people in the coming years, and that fuck-ton of people have to be the NPC's, because the lemmings are the Grand majority. So what TPTB are left with IF this comes to pass is a demography consisting of somewhat intelligent people, capable of survival under pressure (to get multiple years down the line of vax mandates and discrimination without a vax implies you have the means and the heart to persist), people who are also morally adept and strong of principle. Bearing in mind these people will be living through the immense trauma of having watched most of the people around them die, and considering that, if people do genuinely start dropping dead we might be met with some kind of Mad Max survival horror scenario anyway. In the end TPTB will be left with the strongest and most capable people who are probably much more intent on surviving day-to-day than stirring any kind of political uprising. If we consider this game in the long term, TPTB win by having a society of traumatized hunter-gathering nobodies, and they win in the short term because we'll all be killing ourselves for food and shelter long before we reach a stage of peaceful "just gonna raise some chickens and grow tomatoes in a homestead" kind of lifestyle. Honestly, if half the shit that's predicted about long-term side effects is real, well more than half the planet are gonna fall ill to it, and we can expect some cold ass winters and a lot of hungry stomachs in the not too distant future. The recipe for disaster is all laid out and activated, now we just wait to see what befalls us.