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> It needed to happen.

This is independent of the claim that it didn't happen ("Zero countries in the West enacted anything resembling martial law"). We're just talking about whether martial law was imposed, not whether it was unjustified.

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I was objecting to the characterization of the occupation of the capital city as being simply a 'protest'.

Ah, that's fair. I wrote "protest" not to downplay the severity of the situation but because I wanted to clarify that it wasn't enacted in response to COVID itself, which would probably be everyone's first guess (although that was also considered but rejected by the premiers).

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