When I was studying religion at university, I came to the realisation that people who were religious had a need for certainty that I did not share. It seems pretty clear to me that vast swathes of the world have gone mad out of a need for the same thing: certainty. And it is precisely this neurosis which is driving them to (try to) control others.
It seems pretty clear to me that it is impossible to control a virus. Aside from the fact that they are a part of the ecology of the earth and our bodies at all times (what else would we “test positive” for if we swabbed for it?*), they are microscopic organisms invisible to the naked eye. Rationally, how do you think you can control something you cannot see? You can’t.
This is why everything that you are doing to try to control the virus doesn’t work, and that is why you are moving on to trying to control others. You will never control the virus because you cannot see it. You can see me though, and that is why you want to control me. I, and others like me, stand as proxies for the thing you cannot see and cannot control.