https://brownstone.org/articles/when-the-war-came-home/
In February 2022, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a bulletin condemning online voices and public gatherings attacking such government
Covid policies as mask and vaccine mandates. Those spreading “misinformation” about the pandemic, DHS warned, were undermining “public trust in the U.S.
government institutions” and could be considered a “domestic threat actor” or a “primary terrorism-related threat.”
How did government vigilance against lethal attacks like 9/11 culminate in the claim that critics of public health measures were terrorists? The bulletin
ignored the possibility that one reason trust in our governing institutions had been undermined was not denunciations of our pandemic policies but the
policies themselves, along with the government’s manipulative public messaging about them. For DHS—a federal department that did not exist 20 years ago
but today has a $103 billion budget—the real problem was anyone so rude as to call attention to such failings.