The recognition of a consequence is seen as if it just suddenly happened.

http://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2020/04/28/covid-update-focus-on-vitamin-d/#comment-161615

The cause was a long way back, but the recognition of consequence is seen as if it suddenly happened. However you are right, tyranny is invited or given a back door or even mainline connection into our homes, our kids our minds. It doesn't seem to be what it actually does.

To what degree is this a popping of a reality bubble for many who have been insulated to a large extent from having to confront the 'backend' or underbelly of society?

Someone said 'how dare they..?' in a recent comment. Well audacity is their strong suit - and the bigger the lie the better it works.

Those mortally afraid of an extraordinarily oversold respiratory infection have been induced to a patriotic fervour for our boys on the front line. Saving lives and saving an already captured privately owned 'NHS' - apart from token show.

This formula worked in the past and it works now because fear is the underlying basis for protection and survival in all but a few - and the fear response shuts down all else to fight or flight - but in trauma of overwhelm we have another option; freezing, immobilisation and dissociation.

We can also have the situation where the abused emulates or repeats the abusive pattern.

If the infected can be recast as vermin - they can be treated as vermin as a moral necessity or virtue. This can be seen in not very distant human history.

Calling up fear is extremely dangerous for it can and does mutate into a monster when it is fed rather than starved of fuel. It only offer illusion of control - but for the Fauci's of the world any illusion is a way to evade and delay a terrible upset.

After reading Elizabeth's post - to which you reply - I had the image of someone who would rather medicate his family to death by stealth than upset them with such terrible experience. I have read of such cases.