Covid: you left out my favorite...."We're all in this together!". Usually uttered by some rich fdiot Hollywood lib!
Riots: Used to be "Looters will be shot." There wasn't so much of that going on then.
Monty Python had a song (or one of them did) called "How Sweet to be an Idiot". I'm starting to think that this is not comedy but a good state of mind.
I used to ignore the news when I was young. Maybe I need to start again. Of course, these days, politics is injected into EVERYTHING!