What does the word Lockdown mean in Carona Virus

What does the word lockdown mean? But above all, in what situations can the authorities apply this emergency protocol that was in force in Italy from 9 March to 4 May 2020? From the terrorist attack of the Twin Towers in 2001 to the Coronavirus pandemic, here are all the events of recent history in which there has been talk of lockdown

Lockdown is an English word  that in recent months we have come to know (unfortunately) well. In the first half of 2020, with the spread of the Coronavirus epidemic , first in China, then in Europe and in particular in Italy starting from March, we all gradually became familiar with this term which in Italian means “confinement”, “isolation “. In recent times this word is coming back into fashion, thanks to the drastic measures decided by the government to limit the effects of the second waveof the pandemic and stem the health crisis, with the consequent division of the country into zones: red, orange and yellow. Moreover, since yesterday, even at the government level, there has been talk of the possibility that the lockdown currently in force in the regions considered to be the ” red zone ” could return to a general national level. But what exactly does lockdown mean? And when, in recent history, has it been made in situations other than the pandemic?

Lockdown, the meaning of the English word

First of all, it must be said that lockdown comes from the union of two English terms, ” lock ” and ” down “, which generates a single word . Lockdown, in English, is written in yarn, without interruption. In Italian, the most suitable terms to translate it are ” isolation “, ” block “. In case it is used as a verb (” to lockdown “) the most appropriate way to translate it into our language is ” lockdown “, ” block “. It is news yesterday that the prestigious Collins certified lockdown as word of the year, considering that in 2020 it was “shared by billions of people”.

What happens with the lockdown of a place

Generally with the word lockdown we define an emergency protocol that prevents people or information from moving from a certain area to safeguard their health and, in some cases, life itself. Which is what has happened in recent months in Whuan and in the province of Hubei , in China , and what is happening here in these days. Although not with the same degree of intensity. Usually such an emergency protocol is initiated by the authorities . Locks can also be used to protect people within a facility or, for example, a computer system from a threat or other external event.

In less serious cases than the one we are currently witnessing, there is also talk of lockdown of buildings , through the blocking of the doors leading to the outside are closed so that no person can enter or exit. A full lockout usually means that people must stay where they are and cannot enter or exit a building or rooms within a building. If people are in a corridor, they should go to the nearest locked and safe room.

The historical events in which we had the lockdown

In September  2001 , in the wake of the 9/11 attacks on New York’s Twin Towers, a three-day blockade of US civilian airspace was initiated.

Four years later, in December 2005 , New South Wales police in Australia initiated a blockade of the Sutherland Shire and other beach areas in New Wales to contain the Cronulla uprising between white supremacists and the Australian police. An example of a campus / school lockdown was demonstrated at the University of British Columbia (UBC) on January 30 , 2008 , when an unknown threat was created and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) issued a lockdown on one of the buildings. on campus for six hours, isolating the area. On April 10 , 2008 , two secondary schools in Canadawere closed due to suspected firearms threats. George S. Henry Academy was locked up in Toronto, Ontario, while New Westminster Secondary School was closed in New Westminster, British Columbia.

On April 19, 2013 , the entire city of Boston was shut down and all public transport was stopped during the manhunt of Islamist terrorist Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, while the city of Watertown remained under the patrol of the armed police during systematic house-to-house searches.

In the 2015 Brussels blockade , the city was closed for days as security services searched for suspects involved in the November Paris attacks that same year. Also in 2015, a terrorist threat caused the 2015 Los Angeles Unified School District to close.

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