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I do think you're pointing out something important, and worth understanding.

You're definitely right that much of the media landscape (mainstream and alternative alike) casts issues as people-vs-government. Sadly, in addition to what governments did, many ordinary people also proactively chose to participate in segregating people from society, terminating their employment, and cutting out family members.

As awful as those things were, they can't merely be blamed on the establishment as comforting as that would be. This is why the mass formation psychosis theory got a lot of play, because it allowed people to excuse the personal betrayal from many of their friends and family.

My point is that you've hit the nail on the head that people are separated and there is an outright non-communication taking place that itself causes many problems.

Why is it in place?

What should people do about it?