Then it starts to feel permanent because they've done "everything right" and it's only gone completely wrong.
Because it's designed to. That's why the rush to operate - as far as the socjus types are concerned, once they've convinced you to start cutting important bits of yourself off, they own you. Because most of the time, they're correct.
Because, if you're trying to manage every conversation - like a totalitarian - and trying to make every conversation about your cult - like a true zealot - it's easier to achieve this if you can reduce the number of conversations to something you can manage.
Not meaning to be callous, but what's the baseline here?
Being a police officer is a stressful job. Given the baseline rate and the size of the department, what's the "usual" rate for this kind of thing?
That's before we even get to determining if the protest was a causal factor. Kind of stink of post hoc ergo propter hoc, tbh
For some kind of context:
CCP aren't just commies, they're commies who won't keep their nose out of everyone else's business, the worst kind.
That's the endgame for all communism. It cannot compete with capitalism - see the exodus from communist countries to capitalist ones every time that is an option - so to stop their serfs running for the hills any variant of communism must seek to expand it's influence or fight a continual battle to imprison it's own population.
Worth noting:
Scientists that encouraged the use of fear to control people’s behaviour during the pandemic have admitted that its work was “unethical” and “totalitarian”
Also from one of the UK scientific advisory groups.
Don't see why they wouldn't do the same with forced vaccinations.
Well, the usual play for the US when the Federal government really wants something to happen is that it takes all the money the States pay the Fed and simply ... stops giving it back to the State in question.
I'm waiting for the Delta Plus Turbo Remix edition, myself.