You misunderstood my point. Or rather I didn't communicate it properly.

Renaming the virus variants won't solve the root problem. Nor will racist attacks, of course, but that's just people's desperation showing, because their governments refused to implement good solutions that could solve the root problem.

I see your point now, but yeah when people are desperate, desperate measures are needed. We have Anti-Vaxers, Moon landing deniers. So sometimes some decisions may sound stupid, but to some degree they might help.

Maybe, but I don’t think the track record shows that.

IMO the more likely consequence is that the populace continues to lose the respect and trust for their governments. This started with banning plastic straws (now you get a paper straw wrapped in plastic!) and it’s accelerated since the start of the pandemic.

To be fair, govts are very slow. Changes take a lot of time. What one party agrees is not met eye to eye by other. Also take an example of Cookie banners. Govt wants to do something, corps come up with BS to evade. Now to make it change a step further, it takes a lot of time and is constantly brought down by lobbies etc. At the end of the day, common man suffers. But its not just govt, at every step there is irresponsibility, greed etc.