Ratchet effect: When the bat virus crisis is gone, government will keep its new fatness.

"The growth of government that attends national emergencies is not surrendered fully when the crisis ends. Instead, a ratchet effect operates whereby much of the crisis-borne growth of government becomes institutionalized in agencies and practices and, more important, in the dominant ideology of political elites and the general public."

This is quoted from Reason.com

Horgan and Boudreaux.