Jonathan Turley 

The Loki Effect: How Crime Became the Latest Crisis Blamed on the Pandemic

"The pandemic now seems to have reached the mythic levels of gods who once were blamed for everything that went wrong in life. Africans had Anansi the Spider, while the Norse had the trickster Loki. Both were known to assume different identities to wreak disorder or steal precious things. . .

That damned Loki."