[old curmudgeon]

Fear is the best motivator for large populations. The wu-flu panic is the prime example.

Now that the wu-flu is no longer useful as a motivator, something else must be developed scary enough to manage the masses.

And at the same time get their minds off the daily revelations of corruption and murder by those in power.

[BwanaNdege]

Fear is the best motivator for large populations. The wu-flu panic is the prime example....

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”

H.L. Mencken - 1918