Yes, the virus existed, but the "pandemic" was orchestrated by a PCR (no relation) test that produces up to 97% false positives and has been discontinued from use for this reason.  The large number of Covid cases were pure fantasy based on false positives.   The number of deaths were orchestrated by giving hospitals large financial incentives to report deaths as Covid deaths, regardless of cause.  The fear generated by fabricated numbers of cases and deaths drove  people to accept injections of they knew not what.  It turns out that the untested "vaccine" is a larger threat to health and life than Covid itself, and the death and injury rates mount as the "vaccine" does its deadly work in the bodies of injected people.  It remains to be seen what the long term death rate of the "vaccine" will be.

All of the other Covid measures did much harm and no good.  The masks proved to be a cause of illness, not a preventer of illness.  The lockdowns disrupted production, destroyed jobs, businesses, and supply chains, and are the cause of the current sharp increase in prices. 

The Western world, full of its totally unjustified arrogant hubris, thinking of itself as "exceptional" and entitled to world hegemony, turned a deaf ear to Russia's offer of a mutual security pact.  The idiot that serves as US President, the idiot that serves as US Secretary of State, and the idiot that serves as NATO Secretary General, all declared that, despite Russia's announced red line, they would continue to expand military bases on Russia's borders.  

When I say "stupid," I mean stupid.  You have to be stupid to provoke a war that you are helpless to do anything about.