I am amazed at the measures taken as if they don't spend millions to kill millions every year and never cared now suddenly they care about the frail and old people. It seems more like a move for more control and pushing for measures we can't unroll easy like you said, such as a cashless society too.

I think governments and centrally planned finance are in a position where they only know what they know and aren't willing to try anything else. As we look at the deflationary costs of production we have but the inflationary pricing covering it due to currency devaluation its a crime in itself.

If we moved to let interest rates normalise and obliterate this paper wealth, we could surely move to a UBI that is backed by deflation so it has more buying power each year. It doesn't even need to be as much as we think.

This system seems it would sooner eat itself and reset than do anything in the actual interest of the people. Time to separate money from the state, well it should have been done long ago in my opinion