There's more than one way to depopulate. Governments do so on pretext, often. It's normal human condition.
Just saying, I don't assume there is any desire on th epart of the government for things to "go over well." If they don't hear chatter, they will invent it.
Was just looking at what’s happening in Australia, and it occurred to me: they get their way either way. They either pin down resistors, arrest them, “jab” them, and now they lose all their liberties anyway, OR they draw their weapons and open fire because the resistors are armed and aren’t going out that way.
Maybe they’ll think twice about volunteering to be part of the SS. Just following orders, right?