no authoritarian state has ever had enough police and military to come close to outnumbering the citizenry. numerical equivalency is not a necessary condition f

no authoritarian state has ever had enough police and military to come close to outnumbering the citizenry. numerical equivalency is not a necessary condition for the exertion of power and coercion. we must remain vigilant in protecting our rights and maintaining the dispersion of power while we get through this pandemic. part of that is keeping fear responses in check by putting our rational powers to use discerning facts, accepting uncertainty, rejecting falsehoods, and collectively yielding the time needed to compile valuable information, rather than getting frothed up by the frenzy.