The only means of resistance is collective resistance. Let's say it's a matter of violating the COVID lockdown. You violate the lockdown and the police come to arrest you and you physically resist them.

If 1 guy does this, he's a criminal.

If 10 guys do it, they're terrorists.

If 100 guys do it, they're rioters.

If 1000 guys do it, they're a movement.

If 10,000 guys do it, it's an uprising.

If 100,000 guys do it, it's a revolution.

With each magnitude, the resistance gains more legitimacy and becomes harder to suppress.

A police squad can suppress one, armed man.

It would take SWAT to suppress ten armed men.

It would take the whole police department to suppress a hundred armed men.

They'd have to call the national guard to suppress a thousand armed men.

They'd need to summon entire national guard divisions to put down ten thousand armed men.

They'd need to call the army to put down 100,000 armed men.

Not only with each increase in magnitude does it become harder for the regime to physically crush the dissenters, but it also becomes politically more questionable.

Killing one guy is no big deal.

Killing ten guys would grab the headlines.

Killing a hundred guys would spark national and international conversation and condemnation.

Killing a thousand guys could cause large amounts of the country to start fortifying and entering a state of semi-secession.

The army would probably refuse to fight and kill 10,000 guys. They have the firepower to do it but it's extremely debatable if the common troops and junior officers would follow the order.

With 100,000 men, parts of the army might outright defect to their side or just desert rather than engage in such slaughter.

There is strength in collective action. Only collective action can get us out of this mess. No amount of sunning your balls, lifting weights, and stocking ammo will cut the job. Collective struggle is the answer.