"THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, COVID-WARRIOR!"
That's why this is happening. That explains all the public support for the erosion of our freedoms, the mask Karens, all of it. People have embraced this as a "cause". They've made it a part of their identities, and key to their sense of self-worth to think of themselves as "covid warriors".
Sitting on the couch and collecting welfare is their Beaches of Normandy. They need this to feel like they're heroes, like their lives have meaning.
This is as sad as it is terrifying.
When I looked at the polls, I was shocked at how high the support for these restrictions were among 18-34 year olds. https://www.campaignresearch.com/news-updates Don't 18-34 year olds want to date, see their friends and enjoy their youth?
And older men.
What happened to men protecting their families? Do these men have no grandkids?
Anyhow, about 150-200 people of the 1100 they polled disagreed with a lot of the idiocy.
They broke down the results by region in their poll as well. And the results are not as good as you think outside the GTA. There is broad support for the stay at home order, mandatory vaccinations and the PC's handling of the pandemic.