Real Reds

"I would say they were WAY off course. This is very unusual."
--Mr Teasdale (Red Dawn)

Ironic that the email thread among public health officials that spawned the lockdown mess was internally labelled 'Red Dawn.' In this version of the 80s classic (and remade in the 2010s to feature North Korean/Chinese antagonists rather than the original Soviet bloc brigades), the virus was the invader and public health officials seemed to view themselves as the groundswell insurgents staving off the incursion.

The bureaucrats seemed to be engaging in a behavior that seems characteristic of their ilk: projection.

In reality, public health officials were working to impose an authoritarian program rivaling anything that socialist outsiders could conjure.

Public health officials were the real reds.