The pandemic and financial crisis established Presence and Fear by killing or ruining at random. An opportunity for other Fear-Based Narratives leading the public into Emergency Mode. A strategy for movements to inflict immediate, radical, economic, and political change upon nations, this time initiated by government health policies.

The stock market was under steady pressure by doubts and media coverage of coronavirus worst-case scenarios. On March 8, Saudi Arabia announced to increase oil production with more than 10 million barrels a day, running the price of oil into a free fall. On the morning of Monday, March 9, the bull market was dead, confirming a recession. Days and weeks later, travel restrictions, social-distancing, and other containment policies confirmed economic disaster.

Citizens depend on their leaders, but Governments are unable to solve undefined transnational threats, deny a new normal, and de facto suspend democracy by introducing safety regulations and emergency security laws, creating mass dependency on the State. Not all countries can financially sustain government services and the financial survival of (businesses and) citizens for six months or more. If not, it's a matter of weeks before people lose trust in government, numbers, statistics, and the rule of law!