The deprivation of closeness and elementary freedoms, just a matter of course, was declared to us as a necessary short state of emergency - but it is stretching.

It will soon be years old and the longer it lasts, the longer it becomes the new normal.

Many, it seems, enjoy controlling and rebuking, from order-callers at the supermarket checkout to high-level politics.

The freedom diet merges with the moralization of the political, for example in climate or migration policy.