I have been against lockdowns and masks since the start of the COVID19 hysteria, but cannot attend this protest if it will be all about Bill Gates, anti-vaxxers, Trump, Brexit, far-fetched plandemic theories, etc. etc.

People stay silent because they don't want to be lumped in with the crazies, the "covidiots"; they just want to get on with their lives and wait for this madness to pass. That is how the government gets away with this.

COVID = baby boomer mortality freak-out + excuse for more money printing, debt, MMT, UBI. There was a stock market correction looming this Spring. Majorities in the government class and too-big-to-fail zombie companies benefit from lockdowns, furloughs and free cash. That explains the global political response.

I would join a protest if it was about basic principles of liberty, human rights and democracy; government has no right to lock us in our homes, mandate us to wear face coverings, shut down our businesses, distort markets and wreck the economy in the process, all for a virus that is nothing out of the ordinary - but still real and a bit scary.