Its certainly an odd protocol for a medical issue.
Their claim will be that with the mechanisms they in place, Homeland Defense is best suited for solving this “crisis.”
An excuse to implement a “Civilian National Security Force” that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded” as the military.
Meanwhile — they suspend all sales of guns and ammo to those who “cling to guns or religion or antipathy towards people who aren’t like them.”