Fu Hualing
SSRN
Published in July 2022
Introduction: A key global strategy to contain the coronavirus disease 2019 known as COVID-19 has been the
implementation of social distancing measures (SDMs), in particular the Stay-at-Home (SaH)
order. Given the epidemiological consensus at the time that social distancing significantly
reduces transmission and that the ability of a country to contain the spread of infections depends
on the degree to which SaH orders and other SDMs are enforced and complied with, few
countries, if any, have not imposed lockdowns of sorts to some degree, in particular a range of
SaH orders varying in scale and severity, placing a significant part of their population, if not all,
under quarantine for various durations.1 To a large degree, the success or failure of these
measures has depended on citizens’ willingness to change their behaviours to comply with SaH
orders. ...
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