I’m not actually promoting the martial arts, here, I’m using this video as a means of illustrating the gullibility of people and how this has been played upon in the recent Covid-19 scam. People are so ready to fall for this scam as it is promoted by so-called ‘experts’ and anyone daring to call it what it is, much like the MMA fighter toward the end of the video calling out the fakery and chicanery associated with his industry, will be instantly vilified or worse.
My own personal analysis is that people have become so narcissistic that they’ll view having to combat some new and weird disease lends a lot of legitimacy to an otherwise dull and uneventful existence. This they accept on the flimsiest of evidence, relying primarily on the say-so of ‘experts’ and the constant blathering of the media, social and network. Truth is hardly ever welcome when it contradicts old and pet theories and beliefs. People WANT to believe they are on the verge of extinction and they’re willing to accept any ridiculous and totalitarian ‘solutions’ they are given “for their own and the public’s safety”.
The Highwayman 
In the 80’s I would watch WWF quite often, then it became apparent (to me) the ‘fakeness’ of the sport…
— and wrestling (even now) isn’t the only one.
Even so, the sport had/has more legitimacy than the Hoax-19 scamdemic. An uncle of mine knew many of the Stampede Wrestling guys, back in the 60’s. They’d come to his garage for tires, repairs, etc. Yes, after a bout, they could be found drinking together in a local bar in Calgary. It doesn’t take away the fact you had to be in shape, though, to take that kind of pounding, even scripted. This Covid fiasco, though, has no legitimacy to it with the law standing behind it to enforce belief in it… the difference between it and the showmanship of professional wrestling, the latter exhibiting no hardship or penalty upon anyone choosing to disbelieve it.