I doubt very much that anyone else had the power to impose lockdown conditions on Vladimir Putin. This kind of health paranoia is exactly what I'd expect to se

I doubt very much that anyone else had the power to impose lockdown conditions on Vladimir Putin. This kind of health paranoia is exactly what I'd expect to see in a society where there's an epidemic that is out of control: some people will take extreme measures to protect themselves. The theory is interesting, but I see it as a theory of how the epidemic caused paranoia, not of how lockdowns caused paranoia.