Proof

With the realization that I can be kind of a broken record on this topic, I'll keep it brief.

Do you remember "15 Days to Slow the Spread"? I do. In at least one business that was closing down for that period of time on government orders/strong suggestions, I remember saying "See you in a couple of weeks." Because as dismal as the idea of a central authority ordering all face to face social activity suspended was, at least they'd put a time limit on it.

Of course the fifteen days came and went. Without a word of explanation, the suspension was extended. Now there was no fixed endpoint, and no admission that there ever had been. Anyone who spoke or acted with the expectation of being allowed to return to their regular life was shamed into silence.

That's why, outside of some limited hangout, there will be no reckoning on the COVID era. Nothing actually went wrong. It was an experiment, and at root it had nothing to do with masks or vaccines, very little to do with COVID itself. The object was to see how much the population would tolerate gaslighting, Orwellian memory-holing, and leonine contracts. A lot, it turns out. Experiment successful.