On some deep level the “permanent lockdown” mentality is one of the clearest examples of a people becoming unmoored from the stream of time, alienated from past and future and therefore willing to tear down everything that could be in order to save themselves at all costs.

— The End Times (@TheAgeofShoddy) April 16, 2021

That, and it signals that other vital parts of society have completely disintegrated because the “permanent lockdown” mentality is not what a collective response looks like — unless you consider solitary confinement to also be a community-oriented response.