Funny you bring it up.
I had a friend who died at 101 and 5 months in 2011.
She had regaled us with tales of being forced to sequester in the top floor of their home in Payson, Utah .
She watched wagons pull the dead past her home and heard the lamentation of the living suffering from the loss of a loved one.
She started telling us about this during the Swine Flu of 2009.
In May of 2009 we landed in Mexico with doses of Tamiflu for each of us and upon disembarking were informed the entire country had been shut down.
You would have thought the world would have learned a lesson from that idiocy but, Nope. They thought it was a great idea anyway.
I think part of all this is this Leftist concept of “safety” where everyone is guaranteed the right to never be hurt, never be uncomfortable, never be insulted from cradle to grave.
Who could be against “safety”, right?
Turns out I am because to the Left, “safety” is simply another word for “control”.
And the beady eyed tyrants in Communist China and elsewhere in the world have easily seen just how cowed modern countries can become under a “threat”, so we have ensured that this will happen again.
And one of these days it is going to be a real, honest-to-goodness evil and deadly pandemic that is going to kill a lot of people.