What is being done right now has never been done to any nation, much less large number of nations, in the history of the world. Quarantines–for known infected areas–have been a regular feature of pandemics for thousands of years. But forbidding people from working–across NATIONS–who show no signs of illness, and particularly in response to a disease that kills perhaps 4 people in a thousand who are INFECTED with it: never been done.
What is being done right now is in direct imitation of the highly unsuccessful response of the Communist Chinese, who starved to death 50 million of their own people through stupidity and callous disregard for human life, and may have caused the deaths of more millions through their incompetent response. We may never know the true death toll, but that they are lying about it is obvious.