It would explain a lot. These absurd, costly, counterproductive, and very unpopular covid restrictions can't just be for covid, a virus that no longer poses any more of a threat, and quite possibly less of one, than the flu.

Random lock downs, people who protest not being able to get their money out of the bank suddenly getting messages that they're covid positive, literally everyone in the country being tested every day, it's clearly a very serious, well orchestrated means of social control and nothing else.

They are conditioning people to do what they're told regardless of how nonsensical it is. It's really the Brave New World playing out before our eyes.

So are they doing this just to do it, just to condition people like one would pickle vegetables for some unforeseen food shortage? Or do they have something specific in mind?

I'm guessing they really are prepping for a potential conflict in the Strait, even if they truly want to avoid one. They see how possible, even likely, it is, and so they're conditioning people to first of all do what they say and secondly not to protest, or perhaps the other way around.