Fauci held up the Chinese virus “response” as ideal. Don’t forget that.
I think one of the things that terrified people was precisely this, the idea that your government could start welding you into your apartment building, forbidding you to see loved ones, making you die alone, making you get permission to breathe, practically...usual CCP stuff, but not for Americans. And then when our government said two weeks to “flatten the curve” but didn’t threaten to weld us into our buildings, we were relieved...and then it went on and on and got more and more aggressive as leftist governors took advantage of it to enact other agendas (anti-Christian, anti-Jewish, anti-small business, etc.).
It was a terrible, terrible mistake. But people were already primed for terror by having seen China’s miserable example. And now we’re left with the wreckage of our Constitution and economy, insanely empowered local dictators that even Trump doesn’t seem to be able to (or maybe want to) control...and us waiting for permission to shuffle around, masked to the eyeballs and isolated from all the civic connections that made America great (sports, choirs, churches, volunteer organizations, outdoor recreation).
Yep, as you say, those images of carnage in Wuhan, road barricades, piles of corpses, people being buried alive, people welded into their homes, crash construction of new hospitals...it was all terrifying and triggered our insane response.
Just HOW did all of that propaganda get out of Communist China and into our lives triggering government overreach?
It’s a story waiting to be told. The Chinese are probably laughing themselves silly.