Hognose Government?

The attempts to close parks that are frequently unmanned while open reminds me of a hognose snake attempting to play dead:

If this threat display does not work to deter a would-be predator, hognose snakes will often roll onto their back and play dead, going so far as to emit a foul musk and fecal matter from their cloaca and let their tongue hang out of their mouth, sometimes accompanied by small droplets of blood. If they are rolled upright while in this state, they will often roll back as if insisting they really are dead.

We have a government attempting to play dead.