I know everybody is dunking on the random governor who decided that she could just wave her hand and unilaterally suspend any right she dislikes simply by hissing the word "emergency," but the problem...
Dumbed down majority needs to reach a point of extreme pain until the inhibited animalic basic instinct will kick in, which will lead to chaos for a generation, rebalance for a generation, prosperity followed again by pain …so the cycle goes again