Pandemic health measures were temporary, not a permanent coup

Evidence

That is not the only possible takeaway from my doppelganger’s inability to get arrested in New York City. Another is that, despite her continuous claims to the contrary, a coup d’état never had taken place to end freedom under the cover of a pandemic, and that she never was living under a biofascist regime. … Despite some real instances of overreach, a temporary health measure was, in fact, temporary. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 819

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how the doubling device produces inverse readings: the same event (Wolf not getting arrested) yields opposite conclusions. Pairs with Wolf’s own claim in the preceding paragraphs.
• ADDENDUM: Directly supports the ‘On Sacrifice’ and general political analysis thread — the gap between imagined state violence and actual state response, a mechanism central to panic narratives.