"Just participate in the debate" is the kind of nonsensical rhetoric Creationists use to push their religious beliefs into science education. There is no debat

"Just participate in the debate" is the kind of nonsensical rhetoric Creationists use to push their religious beliefs into science education. There is no debate. There are no questions. The only dangerous precedent we're setting is one of ignoring the expert epidemiologists tasked with protecting the public. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/pandemic-economy-lessons-1918-flu https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/04/pandemic-economy-less... https://www.ssrn.com/abstract=3561560 https://www.ssrn.com/abstract=3561560 To summarize, during the 1918 flu pandemic, American cities that implemented early and extensive non-medical measures (including quarantines) suffered no additional adverse economic effects due to implementing those measures when compared with cities that implemented measures late or not at all. http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20150111194407/http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/influenza_main.htm http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20150111194407/http://www.hist... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3291414 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3291414 Again, to summarize, American Samoa and New Caledonia succeeded in preventing even a single death from the 1918 influenza through effective quarantines.