Spanish Flu in Creston, British Columbia 1918
If you didn't know better, you'd think you are reading today's news articles.
Many times in history the well have been quarantined. Stopped what ever it was from spreading and after the quarantine you know you didn’t have it. Sometimes you would quarantine a whole town or ship if you had a single suspected case.
Excellent analysis. Thank you.
“The majority was required to kowtow to the sensibilities of a minuscule minority.” True.
The problem is that Americans are strong and have the ethical wish to support the weak.
The solution is for politicians to stop playing God and to start serving the strong Americans.
The first instance I know of in history of quarantine is in the Old Testament. Leviticus 13:45
the man is diseased; he is unclean. The priest must pronounce him unclean because of the infection on his head. 45The diseased person must wear torn clothes and let his hair hang loose, and he must cover his mouth and cry out, ‘Unclean, unclean!’ 46As long as he has the infection, he remains unclean. He must live alone in a place outside the camp
This disease was an infection on the man’s head easily visible to those around the man.
Throughout history quarantine was used to isolate diseased individuals with diseases that manifest visible symptoms. Measles and chickenpox come to mind as diseases where quarantine is enforced.
With COVID-19 no outwardly visible symptoms are manifested until days after the individual has become contagious.
My personal opinion is that a number of erroneous assumptions about COVID-19 led to the enforcement of this quarantine.
First it is was grossly overestimated how contagious the virus is.
Second is was also overestimated how deadly the virus is.
These two erroneous assumptions and possibly others, required drastic measures to prevent overloading the healthcare system.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2020/04/trumps_swedish_gambit_against_virus_checkmate.html
Sweden’s misunderstood virus policy was aimed at the second wave. Health Authority epidemiologist Anders Tegnell recommended to the government a form of voluntary self-isolation, largely of the older population. Trump has dismissed this policy (as first proposed for the UK), as “just ride it out… do nothing,” but that is inaccurate. Sweden sought to develop the 80% “herd immunity” that causes the virus to die out, while protecting the elderly and infirm. This was the answer to the second-wave problem now facing Dr. Fauci. As for immediate consequences, Dr. Tegnell was blunt: “There is no evidence at this point that doing more at this stage would make any difference.”
A certain stealth and potency attends to this one, so our actions are more agressive as a way to stem the tide, as it were. I do not mind some adjustments, but I am not the social type. Shutting businesses down completely seems like a wrong move. The media does not help, nor do statists, but I repeat myself.
In the bigger scheme of things these past months and next few weeks will prove to be of benefit. Our generation needs things to be shaken up a bit as a way to remind us of things that really matter, like toilet paper.
Because without a cheap way to TEST, we don’t know who is healthy and who isn’t. So your question is meaningless.
Since nobody can define who is “healthy”
Then people will be asking why you didn't do the obvious thing with such a contagious disease.
Because if they didn’t quarantine the healthy, the healthy would be able to go to work and the economy would stay healthy.
It’s fine that no visitors are allowed in nursing homes for example and younger people who know they are immuno-suppressed need to stay inside but the rest of this is nonsense.
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What healthy people have been quarantined?
No rapid tests = unable to identify & quarantine the sick.
Because many think they are healthy when they are not or when they are “Typhoid Mary” carriers. So many here on FR are just daft.
Actually, the uninfected were often quarantined. For example, ships arriving in some ports were sent to a special island without regard to whether anyone on the ship was sick.
Any one in a house that had sick were also quarantined.
Similar restrictions to stay at home were enacted in many cities during the Spanish flu.
Etc., etc.
Because for 14 to 21 days you can have no symptoms but you are able to infect others. And this virus is very easy to transmit.
If you’re afraid of catching it, stay home.
Where’s the antibody test? I had this - along with everyone I know - in February!