This dumb fucker

If people were threatening to lock down the entire world for cholera when that was a thing that was common then yes. Cholera still occurs today... We don't hide in our homes for it.

From History.com - https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/history-of-cholera

The disease subsequently spread throughout Europe, including reaching Great Britain for the first time via the port of Sunderland in late 1831 and London in spring of 1832. Britain enacted several actions to help curb the spread of the disease, including implementing quarantines and establishing local boards of health. But the public became gripped with widespread fear of the disease and distrust of authority figures, most of all doctors. Unbalanced press reporting led people to think that more victims died in the hospital than their homes, and the public began to believe that victims taken to hospitals were killed by doctors for anatomical dissection, an outcome they referred to as “Burking.” This fear resulted in several “cholera riots” in Liverpool. The third pandemic, stretching 1852–1859, was the deadliest. It devastated Asia, Europe, North America and Africa, killing 23,000 people in Great Britain alone in 1854, the worst single year of cholera. In that year, British physician John Snow, who’s considered one of the fathers of modern epidemiology, carefully mapped cholera cases in the Soho area of London, allowing him to identify the source of the disease in the area: Contaminated water from a public well pump. He convinced officials to remove the pump handle, immediately dropping the cholera cases in the area.

The disease kept going because NO ONE KNEW how to fight it/prevent it for decades. Then actual steps were taken. I hope a rock falls on them.