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So many suspicions are in play that it's hard to think about them and impossible to investigate and justify them.  For instance:

1.  Trump is outright profiteering, like touting medicines that his circle has already acquired stock in and will profit from.  If confronted, he would say, "What's the matter with that?  It's an opportunity!"  Something similar seems to have been happening with the warehouse supplies that go astray, turn out to be rotted from old age, or are ordered but not delivered.  The bidding war has pushed the profit levels as high as during declared war.

2.  Criticism is attacked.  One's account goes missing. YouTubes go blank.  Applications are stalled and questioned. This is minor compared to being fired at the level of battleship commanders and cabinet secretaries, which happens all the time.

3.  The existence of an executive branch army justified by Homeland Security and ICE appears to have few constraints on it, acting contrary to the laws, against health concerns, and even indulging in violence, including rape.  They evade citizens, legislators, the Red Cross.  They are accountable to the President.  So people are afraid of a military coup.

4.  Others are afraid of a rebellion after all the strict quarantine rules, particularly black against white or south against north.  My feeling is that if the previous Confederate nation reconstitutes and wants to leave, they should be allowed to do so.

5.  The federal government has been hollowed out.  If it weren't for dedicated civil servants, nothing would happen.  As it is, they are seriously handicapped.

6.  Ordinary conventional good behavior is now irrelevant. All the fine speeches of "The West Wing" are fantasy.

7.  The oversight duties of the legislators has been mooted by the Senate.  Within the Republican party, a sub-group has taken control and completely demolished the reputation of the party.

8.  A massive accumulation of data is made possible by electronics.  I suspect that this is what's behind the insistence on cell phones because they can give access to all the data on them and what's behind the touting of the iCloud to accumulate one's files in one place so they can be scrutinized.

9.  Once all jobs are online and we are used to being confined at home, it would be easy for another nation with refined hacking skill to break up our satellite communication system or shut down our energy grid.  

10.  People are so inexperienced, confined to a small context, overloaded or young, that they foreclose questions as soon as they hear the beginning, spinning them off into what they expect without hearing the complete story.  Of course, some people are deflecting in order to evade the question, but I'm not talking about consciously escaping -- just trying to keep up.

11.  Eisenhower warned us about the military/industrial complex.  No one has said much about the insurance/health care complex.  Or the real estate/international mafia complex.