Why write a dystopian novel when you can produce the real thing?

A frequent plot element in dystopian end-of-world novels is a massive prison break, releasing a flood of brutal murderers and thieves loose on the countryside. California liberals must have read them.

Liberals call for emptying out prisons to fight Hu Foo Flu

Multiple left-leaning organizations have called for governments to respond to the outbreak of the Wuhan coronavirus by mass releasing prisoners, reducing arrests, and limiting immigration enforcement.