[latexr]

It creates a diversion. Classic move from cartoons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzYOdO4pEyI

It works in real life too. Distract the public for long enough that few people make a stink and the law gets through. When people complain later it’s “Oops, we didn’t know, no one seemed to care. Well, nothing we can do now”. Much harder to do that if everyone is shouting at you to not do the thing.

[t0bia_s]

Similar was transition from covid to war in Ukraine. Suddenly, covid disappeared from media.

[netsharc]

So, who orchestrated a country's army with its hundred thousand men, tanks, bombs, against another country's, plus its civilians, and then even more civilians needing to run away... as a distraction? From what?

Man, how did this "conspiracy theory" mental illness become so commonplace?

[NiloCK]

They aren't suggesting that the war was orchestrated by the media, but that the war provided the media with an opportunity to wind down pandemic coverage.

[t0bia_s]

You imply conclusions that I didn't wrote.

[andruby]

Playing devil's advocate (I don't agree with the conspiracy one bit). They might be saying that the war happened, and then "the media" used that to stop talking about covid.

Honestly, I would say that's just the media jumping on the next thing. Everybody was sick of hearing about covid for 2 years. The war was also a lot more threatening by then (at least in Europe).

As for Covid's evolution, like all pandemics before it (plague, spanish flu, swine flu, ...) disease evolution and human immunity reduces its danger and importance.