COVID & The Pretribulation Rapture of the Church

Every day the requests for prayer come pouring in, people sick with COVID at levels never seen before, many in the hospitals on ventilators, equally distributed among the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. Everywhere you look, people are afraid, confused and fearful of what's coming next, and for good reason, the future does not bode well, either. In light of all this, what are we to make of looking for that 'blessed hope' of the Pretribulation Rapture of the Church when it seems like it's the 'beginning of sorrows'? Glad you asked.