So fingers crossed this whole closure and martial law thing actually works!
Nothing works without a purpose.
And it is quite unlikely they could impose martial law due to certain specificities to a certain system.
Credit is due to China: while they were hit first, they managed to buy time for the rest of the planet. And countries all around the world did not take advantage from it.
The result speaks by itself: so called western countries are for most of them caught in middle ages strategies like quarantines.
China is big data, they use it to curb the progression. They still are less big data than most countries in the west, that use big data for other purposes than diminishing the impact of a pandemia.
Those countries were given time to come up with cogent plans, balancing things out and they fail to take preemptive measures (only valuable for war projects)
They think after the occurrence. Problems are dealt with as they have materialized.
The same as UgoIgo cRPG players, which shows that what is happening in gaming is the expression of something larger. There is an underlying cause.
Incapacity to scout a situation and incapacity to plan ahead, it is all a mess, the RTwP mess except the mess is explained not because of an intrinsic property as UgoIgo players would like to claim, but by the inaptitude to take information on a incoming situation, plan accordingly and execute the plan.
A lot of UgoIgo cRpg players in western governments, not so many RTwP or RT gamers.
The containment policy had negative effects, when looking at the numbers of cases, they suggest causation for an increased contamination rate.
The announcement of the policy drove people to raid supermarkets or similar and an exodus from high density in population areas to low density in population areas.
Areas might have stabilized before the announcement and showed a steep increase in cases a few days after the announcement.
Martilal law would come with similar effects. The thing in the current system, top dog eat dog world of things, people who get coerced may not be the most dangerous.