Life is comfortable under martial law apparently.
Just ask the folks in California.
You have hit the nail on the head. How long are we willing to live in a slave like state in which government has openly become our master, rather than our servant. It is beginning to seem as if our public servants have become the equivalent of plantation overseers (perhaps a little less scary than Simon Legree).
Queues for rationed goods were peaceful under the watchful eye of the NKVD.
We're not under martial law and if they wanted to the people could easily overwhelm the police. They wouldn't have done that before and they aren't doing it now. We'll have to wait and see what happens as people start running out of money and the virus situation doesn't get any better. All in all I'd rather be here than San Francisco.