I think you hit the nail on the head with, "But its been like this for over a year" (I'd say it's been like this for over 100 years).

This is a slow boil.

Millions have talked out against this, from even before 2020, individually and in groups... each instance dealt with in isolation... one at a time, by the "authority" on whatever matter it is.

Every "Royal" society in the world has the same agenda, so the "advice" to country's and leaders is all aligned.

It's not that no one is speaking out... it is that they already have over the last year, and in some way have been silenced or isolated from society.

You align with the agenda, or have no "official" power (or even a voice for that matter)... we've all been muzzled.

I'm one of the few with a mask exemption... and I see "no exemptions" coming soon.

How do you fight that?!?... when the importance of the group overrides the individual?... scary.

We are now experiencing the increasing silence of the oppressed... us.

I myself got cancelled at the start of the year (because I was too vocal) from the business I built and funded for a decade, by my business partner, and haven't spoken to any of my family in over 6 months.

My wife is almost completely isolated from her family too now.

It is stressful going up against the system, especially when the system is "just doing it's job" (world wide fascism... through apathy)... someone doing an 8 hour shift, for a paycheck, doesn't care... vs weeks or months of potential life destroying bureaucracy for the individual.

I will fight when it reaches me, now, but I find very little support around me to speak out at the moment...

Anyone speaking out is increasingly one man against the masses.

The dialectic has been extraordinarily effective over the past year...

It does seem almost super natural.