They couldn't do that, because "fat shaming" is bigoted, misogynistic and racist.
How about a concurrent timeline? Why limit police-state powers to enforcing one or the other?
I thought we might see more people doing what is right as the evidence became clear. Instead, the opposite has happened. Propaganda works. Police intimidate and threaten. Truth is irrelevant.
MoveOn.org (The leftist machine "expert modeller" Neil Ferguson was in bed with) has its tentacles everywhere this time. They have local organizations in every state and western country I have looked at. They are named differently in each geographic region, but they are all the same beast. They do state their affiliations in their information pages. I have been seeing a very large effort from them: targeted intimidation of business owners, individuals and government officials who refuse to comply.
In the end, people may need to feel more pain before they realize they cannot feign compliance or virtue-signal their way out of this. My gym is still alive and virtue-signalling, but I will not train there. They will be out of business unless they are able to successfully renegotiate their prior financial commitments.
Shiva doesn't care about the truth. He just wants to push an agenda.