It might be time to have to talk about what happens when things get really bad and the government even gets nervous. There has been a Continuity of Government plan for decades, but things took a major turn with the introduction of the Patriot Act in 2001.
Just because the World Health Organization was thwarted this time around, everyone can see that it will come back again in a different form, or when a different administration is in place. Or perhaps after the next global pandemic that they warn us is right around the corner. Do we have a contingency plan for our communications systems or will the West be sent to the Stone Ages with the flick of an internet kill switch?