I mean, I'unno on the plague response vis a vis the US population. On the one hand, this mammon humping lemming horseshit a lot of people are doing isn't, like. Great. On the other there's still folks floating around only like a generation off from the last major U.S. (Non-seasonal flu) plague, so, like. Grandparents and stuff had parents that dealt with the same sort of shit, and some of it passed down, so you see compliance and whatnot from odd sectors. Definitely a lot more people are going to die (and suffer badly, and go bankrupt) than is necessary, but it might not be as bad as some of the nutjob mess would have you think. There's a lot of insanity getting signal boosted while many people are more quietly just
not doing stupid shit.
I've had visual snow as long as I've had consciousness I can remember. I don't know what having the default state of my entire field of vision onset is like 
Man, weird, innit? TV static all the time, usually goes with a bit of tinnitus, both correlate with migraines. Wikipedia says that floaters and negative afterimages in vision go with the visual snow, too. Not sure if my eyes are a mess or my brain is, heh.
I mean, conceptually it's weird, but practically it took nearly two decades before I even realized it wasn't what absolutely everyone else was seeing, and years after that it's still my normal, not some oddity. Mostly it's just kinda' pretty and occasionally distracting, on top of little things like being a constant reminder of the lie that is stillness and the reality that all is motion, or the subjectivity of perception. Nothing ever sitting entirely still due to a persistent colorful hallucination can do that
Though yeah, I get the floaters and the afterimages and the blue sky sprites, too. The latter in particular can actually give me headaches, blue cloudless skies are a fucking skittery mess of
junk, notable sensory overload.
The snow's about as confirmed as the limited research into it gets to be neurological, though. Brain's screwed up somehow on that front. Your eyes may or may not be screwed up, too, but there's nothing really involved in the eye itself that can account for it. There's even less research into, like, congenital snow than there is onset, though, the latter of which is pretty strongly correlated with a fair amount of nasty stuff (also people tend to freak out a little when they're suddenly hallucinating more or less constantly :V). Onset tends to be caused by/accompany pretty serious traumas, from what I understand.
