[cherry]

again I ask....WHY NOT QUARANTINE THE MOST VULNERABLE FOR 2 WEEKS?...why quarantine everybody else.....

[Boomer]

again I ask....WHY NOT QUARANTINE THE MOST VULNERABLE FOR 2 WEEKS?...why quarantine everybody else.....

Everyone is vulnerable. Are you going to quarantine those over 59 because the virus hits them disproportionately harder? Young people are dying too.

Anyone with an immune compromised system should be self-quarantined already. Foolish if they aren't.

[PsyCon]

Not a bad suggestion - though age is not the key factor - it's the co-morbidities that have been identified. (The data could be a bit wrong there too given it comes from China.)

But it's not in the cards because fear of this virus is more than (fill in the blank.) This fear provides opportunities to control other people. And some folks just can't pass that up.

Reasonably, we would issue recommendations and let people decide what risks they are willing to take. Believing this is Armageddon (but things that cause more death are not) a fair amount of reason is slipping out the window.

Look at some of the “do something” edicts - especially those that seem to make little or no sense or those likely to produce non-compliance and this seems like an exercise in something other than preventing disease.

[AzNASCARfan]

WHY NOT QUARANTINE THE MOST VULNERABLE FOR 2 WEEKS?...why quarantine everybody else.....

Not sure what that would accomplish... everybody out running around would continue to pass it around some would get sick, others would be asymptomatic and not even know they were spreading it. Then the most vulnerable would come out 2 weeks later and walk into the same situation they got out of.