>there's no way this can devolve into a full on war

I know nothing of your particular situation, but I bet there is usually a long chain of impossibilities that occur when things really start to go bad:

  - There's no way this virus will keep economies crippled and shortages going for more than a year.
  - There's no way for a coup to happen
  - There's no way for this to devolve into war
  - There's no way they'd start arresting journalists 
  - There's no way they'd suspend elections
  - There's no way the police will start shooting protestors
  - There's no way the army will start rounding up people
  - There's no way the protests will start occurring in my town
  - There's no way that the violence will come to my town
  - There's no way that my neighbors will turn me in
  - There's no way that the outside world will turn a blind eye to the atrocities

No doubt it is still a really low probability of really bad things happening. But 1% is not never. Thinking that something could happen is one step to ensuring that it doesn't actually happen. Stay safe.