I don't know if we were rug pulled back then in the pandemic, as the economy of every country has been affected since most of the jobs, and businesses have been forced to close down to avoid the spreading of the virus. Not sure if the economy has recovered after almost 3 years but in my country, a lot of people lost their jobs and some people took advantage of the situation and profited. In my case, I just do work from home since it's not allowed to go outside, so I could handle my time by doing work as well as doing investments in the crypto industry, which is a benefit for me.
After the lockdown where people are trying to go back to their jobs and recover, the government is trying to announce another variant of viruses, but people have been vaccinated and don't want to go back to lockdown due to they don't have a source of income, I think this is is actually fishy that they are trying to bring back that situation so for sure they are benefiting or what can we say they are trying to"rug pulled" once again, cause they have the power to manipulate the market.