Black plague, Typhoid...
You read these articles and wonder if they truly grasp the danger they are making light of.
For each inconvenienced person, we could be talking about hundreds if not thousands of other people ultimately inconvenienced.
Does that carry no weight at all? Evidently not.
Never had ONE flu shot. Never will! Buck up and be careful.
On the flip side - not covering it in-depth while making decisions may open us up to even more cases of isolation/quarantine "for the public good" that is really another way for the Feds to exert even more control over us. I work with a guy who thinks that if the feds tell us to do something, it is our duty to do it w/o question. Another double-edged sword where we may be tempted to give up even more Constitutional rights because it seems to make sense at the time.
I'm for letting them do what they want and then giving them 10 years if they infect anyone else and shooting them if those they infect die - a couple cases of that and folks would do the right thing regardless of how it may inconvenience them