My viewpoint (and I'm sure others) is that COVID has been captured as a chaos point to implement far more controls upon the people by those who are the "elites" whatever that definition may entail.

Seeing China implement a social credit score to manipulate their citizenry's behavior is something our elites would like to do but because of danged old democracy and a Constitution in this country it's been very hard.  If you see that they consider us the virus and an annoyance to control then what we've seen in terms of lockdowns and various restrictions makes perfect sense.  No actual effort to treat the virus early, only a magical vaccine with statistically insignificant results in terms of actually doing anything.

Anyway, that vaccine passport, which has been widely implemented in many countries already (see Egypt, Turkey, UAE, etc.) and rolled out in various ways across the west (France, Italy, Australia, Canuckistan) is the ultimate goal.  Data collected from people from their tracking devices (i.e. cell phones and in general Internet activity) as well as their financial transactions (i.e. digital currency no more cash) can lead to a pattern of understanding who someone is better than you yourself might know.  The ability to use that data to influence and control you into certain behavior patterns and limit your ability to fight back is what they would love.  

Vaccine requirements lead to vaccine passports.  Want to go shopping in person?  Well, too bad you unvaccinated filth.  You can't do that.  Online shopping only.  You become a second class citizen forced to live in the dark and in spurts and moments of not "harming" the rest of the world.  Your ability to travel, buy goods and services, and even have a job will all be based on approval of a QR code that says you've been vaccinated.

For the west the fear pron of COVID has been the easiest way to get there.  Lose COVID fear pron and they will have to find something else to force you to accept segregation and blocking of dissent against their "leadership."  Sure, they will find something else, but for now they seem to see that the people are giving them a ration of shit for their mandates which in effect create two tiers of citizens with the accepting vaccinated coming out on top.  If nothing is done and in a generation, when my kids are my age, they very well become used to their phone broadcasting their vaccination status to be out in public and their 14th booster shot of sugar water which allows them to be a part of society.  Not having said boosters and apps may result in you being arrested and or losing your ability to bank, shop, or simply have a job.  Like I said, today it's muh-vaccines but in a year it might be god only knows what.