What do you mean by house of cards? Seems to me like the current political order is the most stability the world has ever seen and is only threatened by an axis of fascist countries that deliberatly wants to plunge the world into war and chaos.
Uuh the largest corporations benefitted MASSIVELY from lockdowns, ordinary people who lost their jobs and basic freedoms suffered. Look at how Sweden handled it, very measured and successful.
To be clear i only changed to duckduckgo for their media player which lets me get around Youtube ads after they cracked down on adblocker, otherwise i would go full Firefox!
They forcibly recurit people. Thats why so many young russian men left the country since the invasion.