"I want a curtain of men and armor up the moment the call comes in. Over-flights on the rivers are ready to pick off CIV's trying to cross. The bridges are wired and blocked by armor. Once we're primed, nothing unsanctioned gets on or off the island."
—Nathan Talbot, [PROTOTYPE]
Masao Tanaka: Attention, citizens of Tokyo. To prevent the spread of an unknown pathogen, a state of emergency has been declared in accordance with Chapter VIII of the Disaster Countermeasures Act of 1961. Compliance is mandatory.
The Black Signal: ...Compliance is deadly...
Masao Tanaka: Stay in your homes. All passage in and out of Kaidan is forbidden. Any attempt to leave by sea or land will be met with deadly force.
"I was a boy in Oldtown when the grey plague took half the city and three-quarters of the Citadel. Lord Hightower burned every ship in port, closed the gates, and commanded his guards to slay all those who tried to flee, be they men, women, or babes in arms. They killed him when the plague had run its course. On the very day he reopened the port, they dragged him from his horse and slit his throat, and his young son’s as well. To this day the ignorant in Oldtown will spit at the sound of his name, but Quenton Hightower did what was needed."
—Grand Maester Pycelle, A Feast for Crows
The plagues had been fast. A thousand frightened people had scrambled aboard a super-jumbo in New York, and by the time the plane was over St. Louis, half of them were dead and the other half were dying. Only the flight crew, in their locked cabin, survived—but they were dead too, because there was no airport in the country that would let them land. And even if they could have landed, there was no way to get that flight crew out of the plane except through the passenger cabin. That happened three times. The one plane that did land was burned immediately as it rolled to a stop. The other two flight crews took the faster way out.
"Space lane traffic is advised to stay away from Sol Three, also known as Earth. Pilots are warned Sol Three is now entering terminal extinction. Planet Earth is closed. Planet Earth is closed. Planet Earth is closed..."
— Doctor Who, "Last of the Time Lords"
"In the Middle Ages, during the Black Plague, people used to gather their families—take them to the mountains or the forest. They'd post guards encircling their camps, and they would kill anybody that appeared. [Frank loads a handgun, spinning the chamber.] The ones that practiced this behavior, they survived the outbreak." [hands the gun to Catherine].
— Millennium (1996), "The Time Is Now"
When I said nothing comes, nothing goes, I meant it. If a seagull took off from that island and tried to fly back to land, I had a recon sniper shoot it out of the sky. I had military personnel in hazmat suits fish the corpse out of the water.
—Admiral Brewer, The Troop
"The Reaper virus spread among the population of Glasgow like a common cold. There was no stopping it. No cure. No vaccine. It claimed the lives of thousands in the first week. In an attempt to quell the outbreak, martial law was implemented. Roadblocks set up. Curfews enforced. The airports, seaports and borders were closed. Coastal waters were mined and patrolled. The skies were declared a no-fly zone, and orders were given to shoot down any aircraft in violation of the quarantine. The idea was simple. Nobody came out, and nobody went in. They needn't have worried about the second part."
— Kane, Doomsday
