SheepDog4Life
Natural Gray Man
Why not respond to this like we would a flu epidemic?Quarantine and isolation of the ill, not the healthy. This a long but good read. But some of you won't read it and comment anyway.
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: [FONT=&]The more restrictive methods of infection control issued by public health departments were quarantines and the isolation of the ill. These measures required a sacrifice of individual liberty for the societal good and therefore required a strong public health authority.
https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/fluresponse.html
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1. It's not the flu and doesn't "behave" like the flu.
2. The flu is only contagious for a short period of time before the onset of symptoms, not so with COVID.
3. The flu symptoms come on strong and fast... from the first "maybe I'm coming down with the flu" to "I feel like ****" is a few hours, with COVID it's days, weeks, or never.
4. With the flu, if you wait for a massive outbreak at say a school, then shut that school down, the outbreak is contained within a day or two and school can resume within a week, normally. Do that with COVID and it's already spread throughout the whole comminity, not just the school community, and it takes at least a month if not two of complete lockdowns to contain. Remember March?