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Quarantine is a luxury of the rich.

• bsder 6y ago
  The rich were among the most vocal of the anti-quarantine charge. Once the disease starts running rampant, people are going to self-quarantine anyway. So, we can either quarantine in a coordinated fashion that will help reduce the disease and get us back to semi-normal with some precautions. Or, we can self-quarantine in an ad-hoc fashion that allows the disease to run rampant basically indefinitely and kills off our health-care workers.
  • gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
    In global terms, only very wealthy societies can afford to lock themselves in their houses indefinitely - and even then there's obvious limits.
    • bsder 6y ago
      Who said indefinitely? Don't make straw men. New York shows that even with a massive outbreak, you can contain it in about 9 weeks. This is data and fact (and the wonder of exponential growth and decay). But, yeah, during that 9 weeks you have to be SERIOUS about it. After that, you can start opening some things up with precautions.
      • gnusty_gnurc 6y ago
        > This is data and fact (and the wonder of exponential growth and decay). The data seems to fit up to a Gompertz curve. The rate of growth was declining exponentially from the beginning. Since this corresponds to so many locations around the world, there must be something going on that most people aren't recognizing. If it were due to lockdown we'd see some variation between locations cause they can't all enact lockdown in exactly the same way, with same timing, etc.