> The next lockdown is going to be a doozy. ET tells Covid to hold muh beer. <
You make an interesting (and disturbing) point. It looks like we are being prepped for something. And that something ain’t good.
I think the next lockdown will probably be climate-change related. To save the Erf, everyone must stay home and sit in the dark. But your guess comes in at a close second.
Don’t forget, we have to give up our guns, too. Otherwise we are a threat to the galaxy.
People won’t buy the climate thing, but they’re proving they’re ripe for the picking with the space alien stuff. So the “alien attacks” will be used to create “safe zones” (15 minute cities?) with draconian lockdowns.
Of course for the war effort everyone will have to sacrifice greatly and give up all their liberties and luxuries like AC and lights. Oh and no meat, but protein packed meal worms will be available...occasionally.
When people go missing they’ll blame the aliens and everyone will buy it. You’ll own nothing and be grateful to be in a “safe zone”.
Some of those insidious invaders will also be able to take on human form and infiltrate the safe zones and spread skepticism, abduct and kill. So purges will be necessary to locate them. They won’t need complicated tests like in Blade Runner to find them. These evil aliens will be malcontents that espouse freedom and own Bibles. You know, bitter clinger types.
Best of all you’ll get to see all the carnage and warfare thanks to CGI, AI and deep fakes. Everyone will know someone, that knows, someone that knows someone that has witnessed the aliens and destruction outside of the safe zones or served in the Space Alien Defense Force.
Along with the news from the front, the two minutes of hate sessions will be on the large monitors in the safe zone central squares and lead by an AI generated Joy Behar.