You know how they used to message in the airports "Terrorism - if you see something say something." They are spinning society but now it is about racists, elite-crime conspiracy theorists, and anti-vaxxers.
After the self orchestrated 9/11 perl harbor event the patriot act allowed the US services a limit less surveillance of all US (and of course world wide) citizens. Because some companies like apple did refuse to cooperate with NSA they had to legally force them to be compliant.
US deaths forced by terror attacks are just a tiny fraction of e.g. traffic deaths or deaths from slippery soap!!
Obviously freedom for US citizens is the right to eat as many burgers they can swallow and to shoot around like mad inside a gravel pit.
The same now with CoV-19. The pressure is upheld to allow a few people to generate a gigantic amount of money. The criminal folks at Gilead sponsoring world wide a small army of the FR mafia to sell a kidney damaging drug that has no effect in helping your survival.
Also masks are still sold at 4x the prize before the CoV-19 event.
Terrorizing the population is the easiest way to generate money. After two years from now you will notice how many criminal deals did change your city that went on unnoticed during the time you did sit in your "CoV-19 prison".