IF — for a moment — we assume this is all a "government plot to control people," the longer they keep people cooped up, the more that plan will backfire.
Not because a bunch of people go out and protest like this, but because billions of people are forced to sit with their own thoughts and that might just trigger a sort of "Renaissance of Critical Thinking," a large part of which will no doubt be centered around the idea that we don't really NEED many of the words and products purveyed by the politicians and corporatists.
Yup, good point. Free time to think, the horror! LOL. Normally people are too busy to actually think. Some critical thinking may slip into some consciousnesses as a result of the imposed lockdown ;)