To be fair, that would be pretty based.

There’s no evidence that life even exists outside of our planet to begin with, much less intelligent life. The modern obsession with finding extraterrestrials is just religious eschatology masquerading as science.

The pandemic didn’t cause the economic fallout, the restrictions put in place by governments did. That’s what Conservatives have been criticizing in places like America and Canada. That’s to say nothing of the effects energy restrictions have had on the price of gasoline as well, for instance.