[Levy78]

Wrong… they’ll work this for another several years until a global war, financial collapse etc allows them the next level of control.

[Robert DeLong]

I think his comment was sardonic. 🙂

[Steve_Seattle]

If Covid fades, either a new virus will conveniently come along to replace it or “climate change” and “domestic extremism” will be invoked to justify the next round of tyranny.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The financial collapse might not take that much longer - but the "free" world has given its governments over to the control of representatives of the paranoid. All of those representatives need to be ostracized and removed from office before we can make any headway back toward a normal, open society.

Vaccine passports and mask mandates are intended to identify and reward the compliant, rather than to improve public health. A database of unvaccinated citizens/residents will serve the needs of future dictators very well - facilitating a roundup of potential dissidents.