The task is therefore to detach others from mass psychosis.

According to Mr Macron, he does not regard unjabbed Frenchies as full citizens, saying that a ‘irresponsible person’ (aka those who have not yet submitted to government coercion) ‘is not a citizen’.

Subdued in spirit in a godless age and having grown weak on the numbing nectar of endless government subvention, we have lost our thirst for liberty.

It is the measures that we would dismiss now that ought to concern us. They can be imposed in an astonishingly short period of time, accepted, and then applauded by the nation with the zeal of a convert.