[Sequoyah101]

This is what is done in an epidemic. It was done decades ago and people were legally and forcefully quarantined in their homes. It isn’t the end of the world.

Without doubt this whole thing is being handled for political gain but even in flu outbreaks people don’t attend rallies and die like Herman Cain did. Attended the rally on June 20, sick less than two weeks later and then dead in four weeks.

Same goes for the current rise in infections, July 4 and then the riots and shortly after a huge increase in sick people and then deaths. Not what happens with the flu. This isn’t the flu.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

The way this thing spreads in enclosed, crowded spaces is more like measles (R0 of 14). I don’t find it a contradiction to take prudent precautions with this bug wandering around the planet while also eschewing what seems to be a new, more oppressive version of contact tracing.

[Wallace T.]

In 1959, I contracted chicken pox when visiting relatives in South Carolina. My parents were afraid of being quarantined, so they sneaked me into motel rooms on the drive home after check in. Quarantine is an old practice.

[exDemMom]

Attended the rally on June 20, sick less than two weeks later and then dead in four weeks.

I saw a picture of Herman Cain at the rally; neither he nor anyone else in the photo was wearing a mask.

I know that rallies are a popular way to energize people for elections, but they just are not safe in the current circumstances.