If you want to convince NPCs that their Freedom are being crushed, don't call it a plandemic. Don't call it a communist take over. You sound overdramatic and like a crazy person.
Ask them; "Do you remember flying and travelling before 9/11? Before the Patriot act?"
If they do remember; point out how it's weird that the temporary emergency measures and the TFSA have not been removed. That the TFSA was still a thing even 15 years, and still is. You want to lead the discussion towards temporary emergency measures always being made permanent by governments or rolled over into new stricter temporary measures.
If they don't remember, you might be lucky and your NPC will know about the Patriot act and is likely to have been told by the media how ineffective, stupid, and villainous it is. From there you can reach the same conclusion as previously.
If they know neither, tell them a bit about how travelling beforehand was (if you are old enough). Tell them about the Patriot Act being a tool to spy on Americans to catch terrorist. That it has never been used to catch a terrorist ... but that this temporary emergency measure signed by Bush, even after proving useless was still being renewed by Obama. Then try to chain them back into the temporary measures being extended indefinitely.
Now, you might have stumbled onto a enterprising NPC and they look up the Patriot Act to see if it's still a thing. Then they'll see that it wasn't renewed in 2020. It might click for them that we are in the Patriot Act 2.0
But anyway, if you know the NPC, you might know which "red pill" they are more likely to readily swallow. If there was a bulletproof 1 minutes spiel that could convince anyone, we wouldn't be in this position, wouldn't we?
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