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I don’t know where you got, ‘forced roommate’. It wasn’t in my original post.

You don’t lock up all dogs because a parvo dog is running free. It’s not the dog’s fault he has parvo that’s shedding all over the sidewalk, but you find that dog, and you separate that dog, until that dog is treated and disease-free.

Similarly, you target-test for asymptomatics, focusing now on the single, living alone.

We have already found the asymptomatics that were quarantined for these past 30-45 days *with* their families/roomies. Those would have infected a family member/roomie during those 30-45 days, and so outed themselves as the only ‘contact’ of the infected.

That leaves the asyies that live alone, no roomies, who have no ‘tell’. If they test positive, you quarantine them - at their own home where they live alone - nobody’s hauling them off to the gulag or forcing them into barracks with strangers. I don’t know where you got that. As you say, maybe some are contageous and some aren’t. But the only way to find that out is to test them - because they do live alone.

You seem to be arguing the position that the recovered/questionable immunity and the never infected (handicapped and seniors who built the modern world) should continue to be quarantined ‘for their own good’, now going on 60 days plus for some, with more quarantining to come in the fall. And if they get infected by a contagious asymptomatic running free, well, it’s their own fault for leaving their home.

That is the Princess Cruise method - of allowing asymptomatic crew members free run, while the uninfected passengers were locked in their rooms, repeatedly exposed to the asymptomatic room service until they were infected, too. That is cruel and evil and crazy and counterintuitive. The whole goal is to find and eliminate sources of infection, not allow its spread it.