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Thanks for the correction. You're right that quarantine does not require knowing whether people are actually infected. However, it's still about isolating speci

Thanks for the correction. You're right that quarantine does not require knowing whether people are actually infected. However, it's still about isolating specific people or things to protect the rest of the population and not about asking the whole population to change its behavior.

dleslie 7y ago
In the present case, we are isolating everyone to protect everyone; and Quarantine can apply to entire populations and has. Ie, whole towns under _cordon sanitaire_.
- daveFNbuck 7y ago
  A sanitary cordon is not a quarantine. The Wikipedia article for cordon sanitaire [1] mentions quarantine as an alternative way to handle disease spread. > Public health specialists have included cordon sanitaire along with quarantine and medical isolation as "nonpharmaceutical interventions" designed to prevent the transmission of microbial pathogens through social distancing. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordon_sanitaire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordon_sanitaire