There are readers who don’t know what I’m talking about when I compare us to the Eloi: they haven’t read The Time Machine or seen the movie.
These stills from the movie will clue you in.
The innocent, harmless, child-like Eloi, when they hear the sirens, all drop what they’re doing and shuffle wordlessly off to what is (but they don’t know it) the entrance to a cannibalistic underworld. The message of the sirens is, “Come down into the dark so we can kill and eat you.” The Eloi don’t know that, either. They just obey.
The next time our government sounds the lockdown sirens, they must be made to understand that we’re on to you, charlie, and this time we will not obey! This time you don’t get to scare us into abject compliance with your diktats.
Watch the movie and see what happens when the Eloi finally catch on.