Hm, it does seem likely that some people would flee, thinking “if I just get far enough away from the city I’ll be fine”. And as jimrandomh mentions, this would lead to more spread of the virus. However, my intuition is that 1) there wouldn’t be too many people trying to flee, and that 2) deploying the army would make that risk trivial. My intuition could very well be wrong though.
Hm, it does seem likely that some people would flee, thinking “if I just get far enough away from the city I’ll be fine”. And as jimrandomh mentions, this would lead to more spread of the virus. However, my intuition is that 1) there wouldn’t be too many people trying to flee, and that 2) deploying the army would make that risk trivial. My intuition could very well be wrong though.