IMHO, all of the lunacy since the Impeachment has been a series of prototypes to test actual response times of US Command & Control and logistics in a free market capitalist society with free speech.
They use a pandemic to isolate the population in their homes, and test to see how long the public will acquiesce and which logistical systems maintain the status quo.
The use monopolies to shut down freedom of speech, to see how far they can go and what counter effects arise to defend God given rights.
They set the seeds of anticipation of a future event, to justify US and worldwide vaccination programs which would allow the ‘chipping’ of the populus.
It is all a facade, with only the cannon fodder buying into the propaganda. It is given some power by authorizing brownshirt Antifanistas to violently harm small businesses and promote racism, and inducing viral episodes amongst the most vulnerable, and reporting errant statistics to promote fear, rather than solve or prevent problems, while trying to collapse the US healthcare industry.
None of it goes too far, but is being used to gather metrics to launch a permanent attack.
Here in MA we mostly ignore the mask-in store rule. The firing range is busy. Too bad shooting at sillouhettes is illegal.