I go back and forth on this stuff. It's hard not to acknowledge that most of the things people think of as these massive triggers for some kind of public revolt don't actually have that power. So from the perspective of the government ghouls they can just do ridiculously evil shit all the time, throw up the flimsiest excuses and nobody really cares.
Like with Iraq the normal stuff that everyone admits to happening is the marines going to door to door killing entire families in the haditha massacre, the army opening fire on a bunch of student protestors, the CIA grabbing random people off the street and torturing them to death, deliberately dropping bombs on first responders, etc, etc. It's all blips people barely acknowledge now.
So if that is your day to day you have to circle around and ask, well, what isn't possible for you to do? How far can you go before the world offers any meaningful resistance?
How the hell would this even happen? You already need medical checks out the ass to be a military pilot, probably some of the most poked and prodded people on the planet.
Edit: I'm going to call it and say the pilots were already vaxxed. Covid can destroy your lungs and cause you to pass out. I don't think they were risking some dipshit catching it and killing hundreds of people or ending dozens of careers by spreading it everywhere.