I'm not just talking about where I am (Australia, as most of you already know, by now), either... Some of the stuff I hear coming out of the US is actually worse (mandates to even attend University, for example... That isn't legal here, yet...), and you guys are all about your "freedom", or so you claim, at least...
But it seems to be pretty much everywhere. Chile - mandates for everything, and masks everywhere. Peru - gender-based curfews. The UK - PCR tests to even fucking travel. Canada - increasingly awful mandates and restrictions. France, Italy, Germany - vaccine passports and masks. Japan - separating children and mothers, and forcibly quarantining them separately...
And you already know about China, and South Africa, and New Zealand, Australia, and of course the US, so I don't feel the need to go over all those shitholes again.
What scares me, though, is the COMPLETE LACK OF ACTUAL RESISTANCE to all of this, except for France, Germany and the UK, and even then it has achieved fuck all...
Seriously, I'm not advocating violence, I'm honestly not, but if people don't, and won't, stand up now... How the fuck are we going to avoid full global fascism, a la 1984..?!
I never thought people would be this fucking weak, or utterly, utterly... Worse than cowardly. I'm not sure "coward" accurately describes someone who snitches on their neighbours, or their family, or "reports" people to the authorities for posting old travel snaps (yeah, that happened here, last year). I'm not sure it applies to someone who LITERALLY WANTS PEOPLE LIKE ME DEAD, because I'm not willing to get the fucking AstraZeneca jab. Nah, I don't think "coward" cuts it. I'm not quite sure what does. Fascist? Bastard? Literal scum of the earth? How the FUCK did society fall like this, so quick, nevermind all the other insane bullshit going on right now, all over the place..?
Fuck.
You're going to start seeing more resistance.
The world wide Covid lockdowns created bottlenecks in manufacturing which are leading to shortages all over the place, which is creating scarcity of lots of products. Putting people out of work and on unemployment for a year also created a habit, and now those people don't want to work, which is creating labor shortages, which is also creating bottlenecks and shortages, and strains on the system where people are over worked and under paid, forcing the few altruists left out, which can break a company or industry quite fast when this hits full speed. It all seems wargamed and planned from the top, because this stuff was predicted in the conspiracy theory forums.
It got this bad because the west had good foundations, traditions, philosophies, etc. which enabled it to reach the success it has. However, with success comes opulence, abundance of wealth, lack of adversity, and relative peace, which in turn creates weak bonds in the communities that used to be strong. People feel they don't need each other any more, so now people don't interact or care for one another (at least much less than should be the norm in a healthy community), and thus won't arise when their neighbors are attacked. The success of the west also enabled it to forget and abandon the traditions that made it strong in the first place, replacing them with perversions and easy lies.
We're in the downward trend of the rise and fall of civilizations. What leads next is misery, violence, balkanization around strongholds as society splinters and reforms, and possibly total collapse and war. It depends on the situation and details.
At the very core of it, the reason the west is failing is because we abandoned truth and embraced lies, in every facet of our daily lives and civilization. This weakens us and makes us easier to control by the string pullers that are pushing it, but even though it's leading to all of this tyranny and dystopian nightmare, it will destroy itself. Lies run contrary to truth woven into the fabric of the universe and are inherently unstable. I would like to expand on this subject, but this is already long.
Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that you will start to see resistance, because people's bread and circuses, laziness, various diversions (TV, games, porn, sports, etc.), wealth, relative peace, and any other contrary force against action will be taken away, and the only choices left will be to kneel, die, or fight.