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Originally Posted by Noah930
Maybe a radical (and impossible idea), but perhaps a nationwide 2-week quarantine now may prevent this virus from being a real outbreak such as has transpired in China, Italy, Iran, and whatever other countries are experiencing it but deliberately not reporting it (North Korea, Indonesia, etc). It would be financially painful, but the alternative (pandemic) would be much worse.
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It was declared a pandemic today.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/03/11/814474930/coronavirus-covid-19-is-now-officially-a-pandemic-who-says
The idea of voluntary isolation is perhaps the simplest way to wind this thing down quickly. The current estimated transmission rate is 3.4 and if voluntary isolation brings that rate to <1, the epidemic winds down. Avoiding unnecessary travel, unnecessary gathering of large groups, and careful adherence to other preventative measures all work towards this. It is already beginning to taper off in China and Korea after fairly dramatic isolation measures were imposed.