Intelligent assessment is always good news, and as the gentleman rightly points out in the linked article, if any progress is ever to be made about that which perpetually and catastrophically ails and plagues human society, it will first be necessary to call a spade a spade.
There have been for some time, especially from libertarian quarters, accusations that the COVID-19 crisis has led to a state that has been called by some “medical martial law”. I believe the more accurate term and point of departure is “medical social engineering and management”. Martial law sounds more dramatic and seems simpler to understand.