[saiya-jin]

Ah yes the famous french protests just about anything they don't like on a given day. It would be supremely stupid and arrogant to go to mass protests when facing such quarantine due to deadly virus like this one, but I have no doubt that's exactly how it would unroll en France.

[n0rbwah]

IMO, this virus isn't as deadly as that. It was reasonable for China to implement such measures because 1) at the time they didn't know how bad it was and 2) their people are actually quite compliant with what their government asks them.

But now, we know this virus isn't ebola's death rate combined with measle's R0. Large scale quarantine like in China is probably overkill and quite risky if your population isn't as docile as populations in authoritarians regimes.

Closing schools, cancelling mass events and asking people to work from home if they can is a more measured approach. Even without that, the apocalypse isn't coming anytime soon.