Coronavirus lockdown

1918 influenza pandemic

 * How the 1918 Pandemic Frayed Social Bonds - Noah Y. Kim, The Atlantic, March 31, 2020

Quarantine

 * The Chinese villages attempting to self quarantine - Sky News, January 28, 2020 (video)
 * The U.S. Government Is Quarantining More Than 800 Americans. Here's Why That Very Rarely Happens - TIME, February 7, 2020
 * Americans quarantined at a US Air Force base over the coronavirus are teaching each other Zumba, boxing, and how to file their taxes - Business Insider, February 8, 2020
 * https://www.facebook.com/steve.schlafly/videos/10219916893128637/
 * Military approves 11 COVID-19 quarantine camps 'for up to 1,000 people' next to major US airports - Daily Mail Online, February 11, 2020
 * Why China’s commitment and ability to contain the coronavirus outbreak should not be doubted - SCMP, February 14, 2020
 * Inside China’s All-Out War on the Coronavirus - The New York Times, March 4, 2020 (archive)
 * Lock the F*ck Down or End Up Like Italy - Daily Beast, March 22, 2020
 * If You Still Don't Understand How China Succeeded Stopping the Virus, Read This and Be Forever Enlightened - Mario Cavolo, April 4, 2020

Europe

 * Italy quarantines quarter of its population to fight coronavirus - Al Jazeera, March 8, 2020
 * Coronavirus: Northern Italy quarantines 16 million people - BBC, March 8, 2020
 * Coronavirus: What are the lockdown measures across Europe? - Deutsche Welle, April 14, 2020

UK

 * Advisor known as ‘Professor Lockdown’ resigns after breaking rules to meet married lover - Metro, May 5, 2020
 * The man behind the world’s Covid-19 lockdown has screwed his mistress, screwed us all, & now – thankfully – screwed his career - Damian Wilson, RT, May 5, 2020
 * ‘I didn’t realize Wales wasn’t in England’: Woman goes viral for ill-informed Twitter rant after being ejected from beach - RT, May 25, 2020
 * Coronavirus: Sex during lockdown with someone outside your household is illegal from today - Ross McGuinness, Yahoo News UK, June 1, 2020

France

 * A day at the beach in the brave “new normal” - The Naked Hedgie, May 25, 2020

USA

 * Exclusive: Captain of aircraft carrier with growing coronavirus outbreak pleads for help from Navy - San Francisco Chronicle, March 31, 2020
 * TR-COVID-19-Assistance-Request (PDF)
 * NYPD arrested a woman for not social distancing, locked her in a cell with two dozen others for 36 hours - The Intercept via Reddit, April 3, 2020

Japan

 * This Japanese Island Lifted Its Coronavirus Lockdown Too Soon and Became a Warning to the World - TIME, April 24, 2020

Reopening

 * New Zealand Economy Gets Back to Work as Lockdown Is Eased - Bloomberg, April 28, 2020
 * Texas Reopening Businesses on Friday With 25% Occupancy Limit - Bloomberg, April 28, 2020
 * Trump gives up on virus fight to focus on economic recovery – and re-election - The Guardian, May 5, 2020
 * Paris, Texas, offers a cautionary tale on reopening America - FT, May 11, 2020
 * Lifting the lockdown and reactivating the economy in the countries of the Visegrád Group - Visegrád Post, May 29, 2020

Effect

 * The lockdowns worked—but what comes next? - Kai Kupferschmidt, Science, April 17, 2020
 * Lockdowns made NO difference to coronavirus but destroyed millions of livelihoods worldwide, JP Morgan study claims - Christy Cooney, The Sun, May 22, 2020
 * Lockdown was a waste of time and could kill more than it saved, claims Nobel laureate - Daily Mail Online, May 24, 2020
 * 'Professor Lockdown' Ferguson, UK's Covid-19 czar, admits crippling restrictions MADE NO DIFFERENCE – where’s the outrage? - RT, June 3, 2020
 * Estimating the effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe - Seth Flaxman & al., Nature, June 8, 2020 (PDF)
 * The effect of large-scale anti-contagion policies on the COVID-19 pandemic - Solomon Hsiang & al., Nature, June 8, 2020 (PDF)
 * Shutdowns prevented 60 million coronavirus infections in the U.S., study finds - Washington Post, June 8, 2020 (archive)
 * Tucker: Our leaders used a health emergency to subvert democracy - Fox News, June 10, 2020 (video)
 * Glad Midsommar! Covid comparison in six charts: Sweden and UK - InProportion2, June 20, 2020
 * Numbers show lockdowns didn’t help contain COVID-19 — opening up didn’t boost it - Donald Luskin, New York Post, September 2, 2020

Economic impact

 * the Unemployment Rate a Good Measure of People Currently Out of Work? - Jason Faberman & Aastha Rajan, Chicago Fed Insights, May 5, 2020
 * Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion: Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline 2020 - Austan Goolsbee, Chad Syverson, NBER Working Paper No. 27432, June 2020

Anti-lockdown protests

 * Michigan residents armed with rifles and handguns defy stay-at-home order - Sky News, April 16, 2020
 * Hundreds gather in California to protest stay-at-home orders - ABC News, April 18, 2020
 * Woman who organized anti-lockdown rally in New Jersey is arrested for violating stay-at-home orders - Daily Mail Online, April 18, 2020
 * ‘Fire Fauci, let us work’: No social distancing as Alex Jones joins hundreds in rally against Covid-19 lockdown measures in Texas - RT, April 18, 2020
 * Healthcare worker filmed in 'powerful' stand-off with protesters as coronavirus tensions rise - Yahoo News Australia, April 20, 2020
 * "Lock-down oppression” for dummies, by Luis Garcia - nomadic thoughts, April 21, 2020
 * Armed protesters entered Michigan’s state Capitol during rally against stay-at-home order - Vox, April 30, 2020
 * Democrats fume as armed protesters descend on Michigan Capitol to protest lockdown - RT, April 30, 2020
 * Germany: In early April, small protests "for the constitution" began to take place on Saturdays on the Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin. First met with harsh police reactions, they gained size and acceptance over the following weeks. By May 2nd, peaceful protests, often small groups of people sitting down and meditating in "safe distance", but also some mass gatherings allowed by courts in Bayern and Baden-Württemberg, took place all over Germany (3min video compilation). A political party called "Widerstand 2020" (Resistance 2020) with the main goal to restore constitutional rights gathered 100,000 members in less than two weeks.

Analysis

 * How Biosecurity Is Enabling Digital Neo-Feudalism - Pepe Escobar, Strategic Culture, May 15, 2020