Turn the Table

Tommy Williams: What's he in here for?
Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding: Murder.
Tommy Williams: The hell you say!
--The Shawshank Redemption

With CV19 case counts clearly declining despite huge testing rates, lockdown enthusiasts are losing their main source of fear mongering. How will they keep their narrative going from here? The 'long haul' hysterics don't seem to be getting much traction. What keeps the panic alive?

I think they will try to convert excess deaths caused by lockdown to deaths caused by the virus. Mortality will surely increase due to lower standard of living from less production and trade, health procedures that were cancelled or delayed, and other causes.

Lockdowners might simply claim that those deaths are COVID caused--i.e., they wouldn't have happened if the virus didn't arise. Or they might claim that the deaths are being caused because relief packages were not large enough to support those damaged by 'essential' countermeasures.

As in the movies, the perps will try to turn the table and others for their crimes.