A lady came up to me while I was waiting for my kids& #39; school bus and asked me if, while I was filming in China years ago, I had been told by anyone that COVID was "going to be executed." She saw me shopping a years ago "looking worried" so thought I may have been told about it.

She ran off before I could ask her what she was on about, but it was clearly a conspiracy theory thing. I& #39;m not mad (I think she may have had a mental illness), but I realised why COVID has been a unifier for the conspiracy theorists, racists, mentally ill, narcissists etc.

Where in the past they may have believed in aliens, the Illuminati, contrails, or antivaxx etc. separately, they& #39;re all united on the one issue - a global shift that is so outside ordinary pre-pandemic life that it requires either trust or specific education to understand it.

If you aren& #39;t educated specifically in science, medicine, virology, epidemiology etc. then you kind of have to trust those who have been, and if you don& #39;t have the capacity to trust then you essentially drop out of reality, because reality has shifted beyond what you understand.