> won't just disappear when the pandemic subsided.

Yeah I'm pretty sure they don't have to wear heart monitors now.

I wonder how far the overlap is in the Venn diagram of people who thought the pandemic would lead to an "Orwellian nightmare" and the people who voted for Trump and support DOGE, ICE and the administration's oppression of political wrongthink in universities. I'd bet it's an almost perfect circle.