Certainly seems so, it reminds me of 2021, fear and stress are slowly ratcheting up. Theyll keep up the facade until people start breaking it down, its like the covid hysteria, they were never going to "give you back your freedom" no matter how much locking down or masking or vaccinating you did, they were only ever able to pull it off because people complied and they had to back off when normal people stopped caring. How that translates to a very narrow realm of people like us is hard to say, most people I know dont bother with so much as a VPN.