I agree to a point. This is absolutely psychological and emotional abuse on an industrial scale. However, there's a timing issue at play with the monetary supply.

They will want to continue the suppression as long as they can until they can push out the digital currency. Once they have a digital currency in place, they will effectively go into intentional hyper-inflation. If they go into hyper-inflation early after having devalued the currency, it will destroy them. The only way to keep the inflation law is by slowing the velocity of the currency, which means severely restricting movement and spending of that currency.

Frankly, this is the actual reason for all of the lockdowns anyway. The growth of the economy was going to pop the bubble because it was increasing velocity due to growth. That would have caused the inflation then and there. But then once the virus spread, they were going to take a huge deflationary hit, so they locked the planet down to slow the exchange of money and keep velocity low.

They'll keep velocity as low as possible, then release it all at once when a new digital currency is in place. Then everyone will spend like lunatics in a pitched frenzy. They think this will keep the system going... maybe forever. But they're dead wrong.

The time scale for this is already too long. The digital wallets aren't supposed to be ready until December of this year. They are planning to keep the lockdown going until June. That means they'll have to slow everything down even further. More lockdowns, harder lockdowns, and longer ones. Politically, it'll be a disaster. With what just happened, the legitimacy of the establishment is already thread bare. Civil Disobedience is going to be normalized.

I don't think they can drag this out for another year without everything shattering.