Steel - "It think the WTS have played the pandemic quite well. They didn't act like a bunch of selfish and crazy assholes like the evangelicals..."
Agreed.
Don't forget, though, they played ball because it almost certainly fitted with their overall agenda... altruism was not a factor.
Rather, non-compliance might've put their "charity" status in jeopardy, and I've long suspected that the Org's business model is still hopelessly dependent on its tax-exemption*.
Don't kid yourself, BTW.
They have way more in common with selfish, crazy evangelical assholes than you might think.
They're just better at hiding it.

*They caved on the Australian redress scheme at the last minute, when it became painfully clear that their tax-exemption Down Under was approaching the chopping block, after all.