so far, we’ve had home quarantine, usually after a visit to a foreign country or to a hospital that sends you home because you’re not sick enough yet, military quarantine and hospital isolation. The first two options don’t require several dozen health care workers. The first two options lighten the load on the hospitals. If you throw quarantine out the window, you’ll have mobbed ERs like Wuhan, everybody running at the first sniffle or sneeze, demanding to be tested Now. Quarantine helps moderate the load on the hospitals.
“Five to seven days” confidence works if you know the day you get infected and that is an impossibility to be discovered only by hindsight. As for ‘available testing’, Calif alone has 36 million people. At two tests per person for nasal and throat that’s 72million tests, just to start, IF everyone could be swabbed on the same day. And then exactly 5 days later, another 72 million tests for that ‘confidence’. So I’m not understanding the logic of your argument in the least. Much less the flippant belief that there is ‘readily available testing’ right now for 360 million people.
LOL! Show me where I hinted 360 million people should be tested right now and I support throwing quarantine out the window. You are making up stories.
Too much drama, too much panic, tossing common sense out the window and sending people running to hospitals rather than calling local health department for medical advice and direction.
If you were exposed to a co-worker who subsequently tested COVID-19 positive, you ought to know what day you were most likely exposed. With that info, you contact your health department for direction.