If you want to kick off a full collapse scenario and/or cινιℓ ωαr, just SAY SO already.
Seriously, these people aren't playing with a full deck.
Sure, at first it's just their typical, heavy-handed, fascist tendencies coming to the surface. The equivalent of hauling everyone that disagrees with you before the Moderator and having them banned.
So then they can LARP in peace, with no one contradicting them, that they are living in a pandemic, living in the movie "Contagion", etc. They can sit around with 2 masks, shut up in their house, and take poison injections every 3 months.
But when they DO emerge, or order food online even, then they will discover how grievously they erred. "Not available. Out of stock. Unavailable. Lead time 6 months." Etc.
You think a small trucker strike would be bad? Imagine a good portion of truckers AND EMPLOYEES OF ALL KINDS in *prison*, under house arrest, or forced up against a wall, such that they completely give up on our current civilization -- faced with loss of livelihood, all freedom, even their very children, they would be brought to a state where
they have nothing to lose. Yeah, I'm sure those goods will keep getting delivered to all your local stores, using literal magic.
For more details, we have to take it to Members Only.