The guards were almost apologetic, they didn't want to be there opening fire on unarmed civilians but hey, orders and orders and my wife's been bugging me to take her on vacation and all.
Refuse to follow orders, cowards.
What this country needs is a nice wave of death penalties for shit like this.
The virus is easily lyophillized and stable at room temperature indefinitely. It can be distributed to key places around the world and easily smuggled, then let loose at will when surrounding activities dictate.
Have strategic stashes all over, and when an area tries to reopen you simply infect a few random in a crowd.