“A better option is enforced quarantine of the “hot zones”.”
Maybe in a couple of instances they could help, but I think that bird has flown and all efforts are going to be on treatment and keeping essential industries going.
It is simply too late and there has been too much spread already
“It is simply too late and there has been too much spread already”
I don’t think so. Or, I don’t sense it...
China showed regional quarantine helps when everything else is out of control. I suspect it is because people try to escape from dense hot zones with full hospitals...and carry vast quantities of the virus with them.
NYC is likely our first candidate in the US, if it ever comes to that.