"First they laugh at you.Then they attack you. Then you win."
Usually big lies are backed by only a few people, trying to spread them for personal reasons (typically greed or lust for control). The truth acts as a massive flashlight, pushing back darkness and exposing it.
There is a struggle to any of this, and those in power like to push compliance. But it's like what happened in my state. I was the only one wearing masks. Then when I refused to play along for uphill of a year or so, eventually mask laws loosened (or rather caved in, as Fauci's ideas were exposed as contradictory). Then at farmer's markets, while before I was among only a handful of people not wearing masks, suddenly I found out that the vast majority didn't want to wear them, and the actual holdouts were a few woke, a few that were afraid of sickness, and a few embarrassed that they might have COVID.
So actually, this was alot of people wearing because they thought they had to. My sister is liberal but very tiger mom, so despite the fact that they don't mask up at home, the kids have the idea that at school they have to mask. Actually, that's currently not legal. Once people understand that not only are they free not to, but that doing this actually harms their body, this shadow creeps back just a bit more. One day, we will be able to see past the fear into reality.