@luckytran I have not, but intend to, read this article fully. I downloaded it and glanced at the first few paragraphs. Preliminarily, I am skeptical of any thesis that implicitly or explicitly grounds the current lurch towards right-leaning autocracies of many formally pluralistic, liberal governments on the COVID pandemic. That pattern emerged well before the COVID-19. As for the totalitarians of the 1920s and 1930s, there were very many factors.