It's a truth that predictive programming can change the societal behaviour to a great extent. I believe that this can even change the mass psyche. I remember I watched a movie named 'Contagion' much before the pandemic and when covid arrived on the scene, I almost always have my psyche filled with the images from that movie. The wiki link of the movie is.. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_(2011_film)