I wish I had a Penny for every time I have heard doom and gloomers whine to me saying "Nothing happens, nothing ever happens".... the reason things have been covert is to 1).
Allow the lazy, ignorant people to start waking up, and 2).
To avoid a civil war.
When things are covert things get done.
We are now fast approaching arrests closer to home, worldwide; perhaps then people can start to wake up?