The Left have been seething over Trump and Brexit for years. They finally found something to exert power over them with and they ran with it without thinking about the consequences. If they couldn't kill you they wanted to removed from society. Hey, do you not remember them calling for things like that during Trump's first term? That his voters need to be put into re-education camps or just flat out imprisoned?

Covid was all their Christmases come at once. They now had a government and globalist backed reason to get you fired, get you cancelled, get you arrested, get you removed physically from society and they were loving it.