Come on, don't repeat urban myths. There were some cases where panicked people welded their neighbors' doors at the height of the epidemic in China (because they were so scared about transmission and getting sick themselves), but that's like saying America's response to anything was eating Tide pods. It just wasn't

Then I’ll change my favorite to when China started imprisoning doctors who were warning other medical personnel about a new virus emerging.

Yeah, that's more in line with their system.