This is exactly what the left has done with Covid and the Vaccine:

1. Isolation
2. Monopolization of perception
3. Induced debilitation and exhaustion
4. Threats
5. Occasional indulgences
6. Demonstrating “omnipotence” and “omniscience”
7. Degradation
8. Enforcing trivial demands
   
   

This is also known as Torture aka Biderman’s Chart of Coercion.