We at the blog, and numerous other critics have claimed that the Covid plandemic, or is it pandemonic, has moved the West far away from basic liberal democratic principles, into the region of totalitarianism. Even from the sensible Left, Naomi Wolf has said, “the new biofascism, very much driven by Big Tech leaders, is a war against human beings and the qualities that make us human.”
Ai Weiwei, an artist and frequent critic of China's stance on democracy and human rights, a Chinese dissident now living in the West, has said that we are already living in an "authoritarian state" akin to Mao Zedong's infamous Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and 1970s, but we "just don't know it." I would qualify this, that judging by the number of people protesting the Covid vaccine mandates, that a lot of people are starting to wake up.