Restriction on the movement of people, animals, and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests is much older then COVID. " The word quar

Restriction on the movement of people, animals, and goods which is intended to prevent the spread of disease or pests is much older then COVID. " The word quarantine comes from quarantena or quarantaine, meaning "forty days", used in the Venetian language in the 14th and 15th centuries and also in France. The word is designated in the period during which all ships were required to be isolated before passengers and crew could go ashore during the Black Death plague." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarantine