Yet.
We’re already living the beginnings of 1984.
If you think they are going to pass up such an ideal opportunity, guess again.
Do you REALLY think that all this lockdown and stuff is because they are concerned about our health? That the politicians have OUR best interests at heart?
I think the lockdown stuff is because we elect incompetent fools who hire incompetent fools to give them bad information and advice. Government at all levels - state, local, Federal - has never been particularly competent. President Reagan and others warned us about that decades ago. It’s the same reason I think Cuomo needs to be put on trial for criminally negligent homicide instead of murder. I don’t think he was actively trying to kill all those elderly people by putting infected people into the nursing homes. I think he’s just so incompetent that it resulted in a lot of deaths. And I think criminal charges are warranted for that level of negligence.
I don’t think the people in power today are even capable of 1984 style coordinated suppression efforts. Maybe President Trump could eventually get some of that going if he wanted to, but he’s made clear he has no interest in that sort of thing.