The way the majority of people have been lead like sheep to follow these restrictions is truly horrifying to me. I knew that most people had outsourced their critical thinking skills to the media a long time ago, and I saw the mental rot that set in with the advent of social media, but never did I think I would see things come to this, and so quickly.

What we know now, and more importantly, what the ruling class has now confirmed, is that we are in fact very vulnerable to manipulation, too stupid, too ignorant, too narcissistic, and too comfortable to realize it and fight back against it. It is very Brave New World:

“And that," put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.”