Americans are so busy trying to get ahead of the poverty curve, with an estimated 35.77 million people living in poverty and another estimated 60 million living "near" the poverty line, that we are now seeing the added totalitarian actions by "most" of the countries around the world. Even counties with few deaths from the faux pandemic are treating their Citizens like mindless cattle. Surely, there was an aggressive influenza going through the world's population but the Doctors and health officials in many countries quickly and efficiently found cures and. used the herd immunity method to slow their death rates, only 8 people died from C.o.v.i.d.-.1.9 in Taiwan; while the health officials in other countries fought over what to do, even arresting doctors for trying effective protocols not yet "approved" by their governments. I can only wonder how many people died needlessly during the last 6 months from this and the other upper respiratory infections like the H1N1 that is still present throughout the world.
China, even though it has, to some degree, opened up its economy to capital markets, is still one of the most totalitarian regimes and they are trying to politically take over countries like Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Zomia/Southeast Asian Massiff whose economies are much more free market and prosperous with many more liberties for their citizens. To think that liberty in the U.S. is not being usurped at greater and greater degrees, you must be a fool or a tyrant. You have seen that there are lots of little Hitlers among us.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/31/china-threatens-czech-senate-speaker-vystrcil-over-taiwan-visit.html