There is video evidence of China welding and barricading apartment doors shut with people still inside.
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1703503427818
https://www.msn.com/en-ae/news/other/is-china-locking-up-ent...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/03/business/china-coronaviru...
>Hell, let's not use China's example, what about countries like Singapore, South Korea, New Zealand, etc all managed to be both democracies and selectively enforce rules at the same time?
Not sure what your point is here. If you're saying information is a virus to society and we need reasonable restrictions on it to save it...I don't agree and there isn't much if any recorded history to support that assertion. Information and expression doesn't kill, it's not a virus. It's not even a comparison.