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State of Georgia closed a school and quarantined the firemen who were sent to the school all on the account of a teacher being diagnosed. Quarantines of mass a
by Shivetya 7y ago
State of Georgia closed a school and quarantined the firemen who were sent to the school all on the account of a teacher being diagnosed.
Quarantines of mass amounts of the population are not going to help, what needs to be done is isolate those most at risk from the general population
- wongarsu 7y agoThis is exactly the kind of measures that should be taken in the beginning. Italy is far past that: With 9000 confirmed cases they would need to isolate hundreds of thousands of people. For comparison: Italy's entire prison population is 60,000 people. At that point it's just logistically easier to suspend public life over the entire country for a few weeks.
- ergothus 7y agoQuarantine isnt just about preventing the illness in the most vulnerable, it's about keeping the explosion if cases at a level that doesn't swamp the healthcare system. Absolute containment is highly unlikely, but delay can help a ton.