Remember the protests in France that were being described as "the start of a civil war", "the end of Macron's presidency" and all that, that happened all the back to... earlier this summer? And the protests against the pension reform a bit earlier that were described basically the same way?

Same thing. The government just waits it out, people end up getting bored and dropping out, then it all goes back to the regularly scheduled program and nothing is changed as to what the government is doing.

It was already hard enough to even try to scare those fuckers into doing something non-shitty before (e.g. iraq war 2), but since the C19 global(ist) sheep parade that obediently switched to defending ukrainazis when told to... Why would those governments ever bother again with paying attention even to "massive" protests in case it could end up threatening them?

The majority of the population already told them that they're willing to accept and do anything, including turning over those who don't comply.

There's no threat anymore from the peasantry, so the assholes in power don't even have to pretend.

They'll just pull out a new "emergency" whenever they want to lower the noise, again, and the sheep will go "baaaaaaaa", again.