This crisis is going way beyond just working from home. Governments restricting people's movement and forcing quarantine is just the tip of a very deep iceberg.

This crisis is going way beyond just working from home. Governments restricting people's movement and forcing quarantine is just the tip of a very deep iceberg. The astonishing decision to cut off Northern Italy was praised by authorities, without much regard to the chaos and the panic that ensued. There's a mindset that is dictating this is the right thing to do and very few critics. When is this going too be too much? I hate to be catastrophic, that's just not me as I tend to think crises will balance out itself eventually, or just fade away as vaccine, treatment, the summer weather (in the North) or the public attention turns to something else. But the picture right now is that we're sailing deep into uncharted waters. It seems like anyone, public and private sector, plain civilians or even mobs can now single out humans and quarantine for disease, segregating at work, schools, public transportation or any place anyone pleases. People are running for masks and hand sanitizers, but in fact it all does not seems too far from bank runs, a financial system shutdown and economic mayhem. The 2010 Public Health Service Act in the US gives government almost unrestricted mandate to limit people's freedom under certain circumstances (such as a new respiratory virus like the COVID-19) and there isn't going to be anyone with the power, or the courage, to dial it back. We need to find a way to 80/20 on this epidemic and get most effectiveness without herding ourselves out of a cliff.