As the Crisis of 2020 evolves, there seem to be a few different ways that the situation could proceed. 

On what "dictator" mean to the Romans - although note that in Caesar's time, it had barely been used for about 200 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_dictator

That intel thread on Twitter

https://twitter.com/generationalize/status/1434584160786546690