The mindbending thing - particularly for those that have looked into Looking Glass - is that this way was the "cleanest" way available... I tell you, before it happened, I would never have believed that a hoodwink such as Covid could have been pulled off to the extent that it was... And no doubt the timing (and other events? Omicron?) threw off their plans to a great extent... I mean, imagine if the jabs had not caused all the obvious and immediate problems and what that would have meant for mandates and public sentiment etc. Scary.