It is important to know, at some level, that what is happening around you isn’t the product of rational decision-making by fellow citizens.
Obviously, if it was, you might follow what others are doing, just as they have while being drawn into a MASS PSYCHOSIS.
If you check that impeccable source, Wikipedia, you’ll find a long history of mass psychoses. The difference here is it envelopes the world. Other than that rather important fact, it’s no different from other mass psychoses.
Preconditions in a population are
-a high level of free-floating anxiety
-lives that make little sense, “bullshit jobs”, etc
-lack of deep social connectedness.

If you have those or can manufacture them, add a big dollop of fear 24/7 & a mass psychosis may be triggered.

-fear of the virus gives people something to focus their anxiety upon.
-a series of largely ritual acts in combination make sense
-doing the same things as others provides a unified feeling.

Apparently, that’s the bare bones of it, and roughly a third of us will fall for it & believe the narrative, no matter the contradictions.
40-50% don’t believe it, but they’re weak & go along to get along.
A small proportion, us here, know it’s wrong AND will speak up about it.

If we go quiet, psychologists say, the mass deepens “and then the crowd begins to commit atrocities”.

Stay noisy, even if you’re tired, all of you.

Best wishes
Mike

Dr Mike Yeadon