2020-2023 Chawosauria Lockdown

### Lockdown Revoked By

The Security Against Coronavirus Act of 2023 passed by the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government

The **2020 - 2023 COVID-19 Lockdown of the Empire of Chawosauria** was a national emergency and lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that was established by four SL Orders issued by Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker. The COVID-19 Lockdown was declared by SL Order No. I-2020, SL Order No. II-2020, SL Order No. III-2020, and SL Order No. IV-2020, all issued by Emperor Shang Parker in early 2020, these orders came into effect the moment they were issued and would stay into effect until set to end on June 23, 2023.

The lockdown involves martial law, suspension of the constitution and human rights in Chawosauria, a national emergency, and also, the suspension of *habeas corpus*, all ordered by the emperor in retaliation to coronavirus. Critics accused Parker of democratic-backsliding, the same accusation against Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster when he had the 1915 Chawosaurian legislative elections canceled due to the severity of World War I. But unlike Webster, the backlash against Parker is solidly modest, and it resulted in the Chawo-Pacific War.

The overall purpose of this lockdown is to suppress the contagion of Covid-19. It succeeded with Chawosauria now reduced to 1 case from 2 because of the death of former Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Boleslaus IX in late March 2020. Shang Parker said in his emergency address that he would not do a lockdown but he was pressured by the immense lobbying capability of the science community into doing a lockdown. The Parker administration released a statement saying the lockdown will not end until a vaccine has arrived. Due to the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine and the need for a vaccine draft, the government decided that the lockdown shall set to end on June 23, 2023, however, the Chawosaurian government have been considering a lockdown extension due to the Monkeypox outbreak. It was ultimately decided against.

The lockdown is widely popular with 97% of Chawosaurians supporting the lockdown with just 1% opposing it. Unprecedent compliance made it easier for Shang Parker and his administration to get Chawosauria prepared for the new coronavirus disease.

The 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government revoked the lockdown in March 2023. The lockdown officially ended on June 23, 2023.

## Background

The COVID-19 pandemic was a pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (also referred to as COVID-19 or simply coronavirus). It is a novel animal-borne disease that proliferated from a wet market of wildlife farm animals in Wuhan, China, to now worldwide. The symptoms include difficulty breathing, a dry cough, a fever, and for those unfortunate enough, horrible symptoms including pneumonia, kidney failure, multiple organ issues, and the scariest for all victims of COVID-19, no signs of COVID-19 whatsoever.

Coronavirus has caused a major disruption of daily world life, the world economy, and then normality of everyday life. Economies having to shut down, stay-at-home orders were put in place, and etc.

Meanwhile, in the Chawosaurian realm, there is no COVID-19 outbreak, but the Chawosaurian government has acted too early which proved effective. Testing immediately began, the Chawosaurian government followed South Korea's model of testing, and successfully tested Chawosaurians daily. Shang Parker ordered vaccination drives to test vaccines and vaccinate people in time, yet there was no vaccine for COVID-19. Shang Parker finally understood that Chawosauria needs to prepare, so he called for a joint session of the Chawopolis Palace, and gave his unifying and well-received national address to the legislative chamber, discouraging political polarization and racial disparities, promising not to lock Chawosauria down, and called for a patriotic rally among the Chawosaurian people behind the government's efforts to fight COVID-19.

The Chawosaurian government at first was not too concerned about the COVID-19 outbreak due to experiencing the 2003 outbreak of SARS, the 2014 Ebola outbreak, and Measles outbreaks in the late 2010s, the Chawosaurian government believed that this is just nothing more than another outbreak, however, COVID outbreaks begin to reach alarming epidemic levels and gained enough momentum to reach pandemic territory, which paralyzed the Chawosaurian government into shock, on March 11, 2020, the WTO declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and cases continue to spread fast like a Zombie apocalypse, increasingly scaring the Chawosaurian government. By mid March, Chawosauria becomes surrounded by the COVID-19 pandemic but are fortunate that Chawosauria had yet to report a single case, but becoming desperate to prevent a pandemic in Chawosauria, Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker declared a state of emergency, declared marital law, and locked Chawosauria down as quickly as possible before a single COVID air particle made it to the Chawosaurian world.

The Chawopolis Palace passed an outreaching big package of anti-coronavirus laws and novel disease preventive laws. Outlawing the practice of wildlife farming and animal trafficking permanently, and imposed strict and permanent safety restrictions on the meat industry, traditional farming, and imposed mandatory healthcare to all animals under human captivity.

## Process

The lockdown is handled with the suspension of all constitutional, civil and other political rights of Chawosaurians ordered by Shang Parker in order to enforce his lockdown. Order No. 1-20 and Order No. 2-20 were social distancing and stay-at-home orders, which are still effective despite reopening in the world outside of Chawosauria. Shang Parker stated that Chawosauria will not reopen until further notice. The Chawosaurian government confirmed Parker's orders by stating "reopening during a pandemic will be illegal, punishable by death via guillotine". Shang Parker and the government plans to pass a law outlawing reopening in the middle of a pandemic, with the penalty being death.

Parker's military order: Order No. 3-20, orders that the military will shoot any civilian who does not comply with the government's social distancing and/or stay-at-home orders, the military under Order No.3-20 also orders the military to guard all suburbs and other civilian residences to ensure citizens follow Orders No. 1 and 2-20.

## Lockdown Life in Chawosauria

Chawosaurians were not allowed to be out of their houses. The Chawosaurian Imperial Army were deployed by Supreme Leader Shang Parker to deliver food to residences per week or per three weeks. SL Order No. IV-2020 prohibited eviction of Chawosaurians for payments not being met as a result of the pandemic, thus relieving Chawosaurian residents from the stress of not paying bills or rent for the remainder of the pandemic. Many Chawosaurians worked at nomad jobs, or other digital jobs, the only effect the lockdown has on digital and nomad workers was that they can't travel beyond their homes. There is a residential class in Chawosauria called "the RV class" where Chawosaurians who live and travel in RVs and work at nomad or digital jobs, and they were told to stay put, but getting food to them was complicated, RV Chawosaurians are used to get food at gas stations, service stations, diners, restaurants, bars, etc. But these institutions were shut down for the remainder of the pandemic.

Not all Chawosaurians were required to stay home. Chawosaurians who were part of the essential workers class such as the Fire Department, Healthcare Department, and the military, were all still under government order required to work. Chawosaurian hospitals are all owned by the government under late Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster's National Healthcare Act of 1913, which established government-owned universal healthcare for all Chawosaurians regardless of socio-economic class.

## Vaccination of the Chawosaurian General Public

The COVID-19 vaccines have arrived in 2021 and a second round of vaccinations would occur starting in 2022. By 2023, 97% of the entire Chawosaurian general public was fully vaccinated.

## Potential Lockdown Extension

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The disease Monkeypox have been gaining concerning attention due to rising cases. as the outbreaks proceeds, it was eventually decided by Chawosaurian authorities that a lockdown extension will not be necessary due to Monkeypox cases not being as concerning.

## Reopening Process

By January 1, 2023, it has now come to transition from the lockdown to a fully opened society for the first time since March 2020. However, things will still change. Mask recommendations and mandatory vaccine appointments for children could become law in Chawosauria as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as guidelines for lower-tier Chawosaurian governments to be on the alert for potentially another outbreak. In terms of vaccine appointments, before the COVID-19 pandemic happened, the Chawosaurian government passed a law in response to Measles outbreaks due to vaccine hesitancy, the law being the Mandatory Child Vaccination Act of 2019 signed into law by Supreme Leader Degotoga K. Atagulkalu on February 27, 2019, and for the first time in Chawosaurian history, this law will be put to use.