In 1830 in Sebastopol it similarly took 2 years of pointless quarantine for people to rebel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevastopol_plague_uprising https://en

In 1830 in Sebastopol it similarly took 2 years of pointless quarantine for people to rebel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevastopol_plague_uprising https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sevastopol_plague_uprising The powers-to-be, civil and military, had great "business" going because of the quarantine by pillaging most of the funds the government provided for the city supplies (as the normal trade and supply was broken by the quarantine) while population was starving. The military doctors responsible for the quarantine received pay several folds higher than their usual pay. To maintain the supposed epidemic, ie. to generate sufficient number of deaths which were all chalked to plague even though in reality there weren't any plague cases, they for example forced people to sit in the sea in winter supposedly for public hygiene purposes, and naturally the malnourished population was getting ill and died in numbers. Anybody who showed any signs of any illness would be put into total quarantine into a hospital building with especially bad conditions which all but guaranteed the death.