as i'm from Argentina all this feels alien to my mind.

Yet when talking to a friend of my dad he told me something that reminded me of this current time from back when Argentina was in total chaos during last militar dictatorship:

He was 18 with his friend doing forced military service. They had to drive some supplies from a warehouse to another military facility. In the truck, his friend driving and two other trucks with some other conscripts and 1 officer made the convoy.

Suddenly as they were going down their usual path they got shot at from a side building.

The convoys stopped. He leaves the truck and follows his officer to "shot back at the windows", some minutes later 5 man surrender and they try to assist their injured.

His friend that was driving died on the first volley against the convoy. 18 yo, killed by leftist militias.

The officer rounded up the 5 attackers and executed them all against the wall.

my dad's friend told me that his friend died for nothing, but the militias believed that they had killed an "enemy", yet at the end all 6 just died for nothing.

I didn't know what to say to him after the story, but this times reminded me of this story.

Don't let anyone try to take advantage on chaos to use this to match "you against them" as they did to us (Argeninta) during the 70s.

Only meaningless dead awaits at the other side.

Above all else, protect your family, what ever you consider protecting them might mean or require. All other things are just worthless in comparison to your family, but some really fucked up people might try to use this to impose their goals branded as "security"