"Believing" that COVID still exists has reached conspiracy levels of disbelief where I live. The hospitals quit testing last year and "officially" there's been zero COVID cases in our county for closing in on a year now. I don't know of a single person, locally, outside of our household, who acknowledges that there's such a thing as COVID any longer. The local TV news and newspaper haven't mentioned it once in months. It's easy to understand why so many believe it simply disappeared. Out of sight out of mind.