IF — for a moment — we assume this is all a "government plot to control people," the longer they keep people cooped up, the more that plan will backfire.

Not because a bunch of people go out and protest like this, but because billions of people are forced to sit with their own thoughts and that might just trigger a sort of "Renaissance of Critical Thinking," a large part of which will no doubt be centered around the idea that we don't really NEED many of the words and products purveyed by the politicians and corporatists.