In the 2010 document Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development, the Rockefeller foundation stipulates in detail the scenario of the global lockdown in 2020 and onwards.
A pandemic is coined as the ideal method to convert society into a prison state. The strategy of incrementally imposing stricter authoritarian rule is layed out in the chapter Lock Step on page 18 which you can download on archive.org or the button bellow.
The ‘Future of Technology and International Development’ refers to a plan that’s been active for years and has accelerated since COVID-19. That plan is UN Agenda 2030 (formerly Agenda 21). UN Agenda 2030 and the dystopian future it entails, is the real reason behind the pandemic.