Lockstep Lockdowns

General Bratchenko: What is a 'wolverine?'
Col Ernesto Bella: A small animal, like a badger, but terribly ferocious. It is also the name of the local sports collective.
--Red Dawn

A common goal of modern socialist movements, particularly those of Marxist strains, is to eliminate norms, customs, practices, laws, symbols, etc associated with freedom and liberty.

I increasingly sense that this is what is driving coordinated lockdown phenomena worldwide. Various socialist factions sense opportunity to advance their agendas by using 'public health and safety' as an excuse for dialing back institutions of a free society.

Because people are letting it happen, the socialists are emboldened to do more. In lockstep.