If we had been normalized neverending masks, neverending free movement/free economy restrictions, Neverending fear, false hope and emergencies and neverending 2 week goalposts enabled by an opposition majority but inefficient, there's only one step left.

The Normalization of people starving to bare bones as residences worldwide combine into one great panopticon.

Yeah, like the times of Holodomor. Starvation and dead bodies on the streets normalized, nothing the Ukrainians can do.