Listener question: randomness and cause and effect

Listener question: Are Events Random? Is there such a thing as Cause and effect?

Events have been “put there by the conditioned program of our mind.” Are you saying a “program” of conditioning created events, like COVID, to use your example, or am I not hearing correctly what you are saying?  ….”so no randomness in the way anything appears and there entirely for the waking up to what we are.” I can see that how events and the ‘me’ are perceived/experienced are a function of the conditioning/belief  systems and how this could, in a way, and perhaps in the way you are speaking about it, even be seen to be “not random,” but wasn’t the very development of this conditioning “random" with no absolute cause and effect? And when you say, “COVID is a construct of me, it exists because I exist…” can you please explain “who/what” exists?