Outdoor courtroom in San Francisco during the 1918 pandemic; China is walling off neighborhoods; Mobile disinfectant cannon in Iran

The Bay Area during the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic...

Open-air police court being held in Portsmouth Square, San Francisco. To prevent crowding indoors, judges held outdoor court sessions pic.twitter.com/zSV8sUQbCH

— The Surrealist Side of the Street (@coolgrey) March 1, 2020

(See more at this Atlantic collection of photos from the 1918 flu pandemic.)

Landscapes of quarantine. China building “walls around entire neighborhoods. Officials in those places have discovered that metal sheets, the type typically used to keep people from wandering onto construction sites, make handy walls.” [Pics by Yuyang Liu] https://t.co/21KFvlMjPF pic.twitter.com/tBRgPR8vM7

— Geoff Manaugh (@geoffmanaugh) March 4, 2020

Food delivery in China during coronavirus: the menu shows photos of cleaning in the restaurant, the delivery contains the phone numbers and temperatures of the people who prepared my food pic.twitter.com/WayaJc2zwO

— Anna Fifield (@annafifield) March 2, 2020

In China, tech giant teams up with police to assign people color-coded coronavirus risk scores and then track them. “Green code, travel freely. Red or yellow, report immediately.” https://t.co/jMJsf1VFvN

— Kashmir Hill (@kashhill) March 2, 2020

China's increased neighbourhood surveillance to contain the #CoronavirusOutbreak has come in handy for political crackdown as well.

Police in Guangzhou found & detained a key rights activist who had been in hiding for months during a "coronavirus check." https://t.co/xnb9UGYiWD

— Nectar Gan (@Nectar_Gan) February 17, 2020

A water cannon sprays disinfect streets in Tehran, #Iran on February 29.
Photo by Reza Bagheri Sharaf#COVID19 #virus #coronavirusuk https://t.co/XD7JCEz8wi pic.twitter.com/0Ny2lFjJXQ

— Nima Akbarpour نیما (@nima) March 1, 2020

Just saying if you dreamed about an old woman playing guitar in a cornfield recently and encouraging you to come see her it's not good news.

— STEVE HUFF (@SteveHuff) February 29, 2020

what if they do the "mellow greetings" handshake in demolition man because even in a fascist nanny state with near total behavioral control they still couldn't make white people wash their hands pic.twitter.com/KencHG7FRy

— D🌑CFUTURE (@topherflorence) March 1, 2020