The China Virus hysteria showed us how easy it is for our population to accept totalitarianism and for the power hungry ideologues and corruptocrats to implement it.
It shows how easy it is to manipulate people if you control their information flow. Not exactly surprising. You can only make decisions on the information you have.
What the deep state/media/intelligence agencies are showing, is a desperate attempt to hang onto the power that an effective control of the information flow of the nation gave them.
They have been losing control of the information flow for about 30+ years. As they lose more control, they trade credibility for short term political power. Because of that, they have to become more and more overt in their methods, which reveals more of their deception.
It is a feedback loop which works against them.
Their alternatives are more honesty and transparency, which they find abhorrent; or achieving a totalitarian dictatorship, which they prefer.
The third alternative is the one we prefer: They lose control over the information flow and political power.