Years ago I was lucky enough to be taught hypnosis by a master hypnotist.

The first trick he taught me was called, "breaking the script".

It basically works this way.

You go to shake someone's hand.
They raise theirs.

Just before the clasp you quickly drop your hand and ask for their wallet.

Most of the time they comply. They hand it over without thinking.

Now why this works.

When you shake someone's hand you enter a script. A subconscious preprogrammed process you've done a million times.

However, if you "break the script" you leave the person momentarily in their subconscious state. In this state a person is highly suggestible and less likely to object or stop the suggestion.

We all have scripts we enter a million times a day. From gear changing in our cars to

Wiping our bum on the toilet. Each one of those things are subconscious scripts where our brains go into an automatic state of thinking.

I'd like to point out that smashing someone out of their state makes them highly suggestible to information. Fear for example is

amplified substantially whilst in a broken state.

Now think covid.
The bump elbow.
The masks.
The coughing in your elbow.
Etc etc etc

Breaking a state offers the subject a direct path to their subconscious mind.

What we are witnessing is an intentional and well designed process of transformation.

None of this is in error and I can assure you it is run and coordinated by hypnotic professionals.