As someone who has contracted covid_19 before, it is very much real. It didn't affect me very much as I don't have any underlying health issues. But I did accidentally spread it to my father, who is overweight and has sleep apnea. (which if you didn't know, affects your breathing while you are asleep) Since covid is an infection of the lungs, it hit him pretty hard, and he spent Christmas in the hospital. Covid_19 is real.
And on that note, what reason would we have for faking a pandemic? And also, even if it was being faked, America wouldn't be the only one faking it. A pandemic affects the whole world. If it was just America, it would be an epidemic. You hear about it happening in other countries, you see proof, (Photographs, videos.) you hear people's personal accounts, and yet you still insist it's fake.
That is what I call ignorance