If there's anything more boring than a lockdown, it's the discussions about the unpopular English term itself and why no German word is used for it.
We could certainly also speak of a "partial" or "total closure".
But why should one prefer a term that sounds more bureaucratic and threatening - that is, even more unsympathetic?
As far as today's English loanwords are concerned, the Corona crisis has shown that they can make a career especially when the world is turning faster than we can write poetry in German. At the beginning of 2020, nobody knew what conceptually we would expect - and what would go viral, as it were: