The term is perfect, because it means the government stepping over your liberty during an emergency, so that there isn't a fundamental society crisis.

It should require a huge amount of justification, and people should have little patience with it. The euphemisms some places use are Orwellian.

“Safer at home” was commonly used in my state.

WI? Nearly everyone I know still refers to it as 'lockdown' even if that's not what it's officially called.

A lot of places used "shelter-in-place", and officially over here it's still "stay-at-home". The colloquial term having switched so totally to "lockdown" is another symptom of people caring for it less and less.

I was endlessly annoyed by the misuse of the term "shetler-in-place" by so many state and local governments. At no point should anyone, anywhere have sheltered in place due to this pandemic, which is an established term in emergency management where people are instructed to shelter in whatever structure they happen to be located at the time of the emergency.

What happened last spring was more or less incarceration. We weren't free. We weren't allowed to leave our houses. The term "lockdown" works quite well.

Outside the US maybe. Nowhere in the US was locked down. In fact a good portion of states never enforced restrictions at all.

Thankfully, while there were a few places that attempted to restrict outings to "essential" trips, it never was enforceable. I am not a fan of many things police do, but I am proud that my local sheriff announced that he would not enforce any such order.

You very clearly have zero clue what life is like while incarcerated. You should be embarrassed by this comment.