The government purposely created all of those problems which it would now solve by marking us.
That is the MO of the Beast.
Create a problem, empower itself to solve that problem, create a new problem.
Ever more heads.
Currently it is, at worst, carrying a copy, on a card or in some database, of the marks God already bestowed on us.
Getting the marks of the beast is a matter of willfully perverting our God given purpose in thought and deed. We sin already; the object of that sin will become explicit.