Quote:
Originally Posted by island911
You would be wise to not conflate sick/ healthy with carrying/not carrying.
People know when they are sick. Sick is when it is called disease. Break that down dis-ease.
|
You'd be wise to think about what quarantine is for. It makes bugger all difference how someone is feeling. If they're carrying, they're carrying and contagious. In other words, infected IS sick and if you're not displaying symptoms, either you will be soon, or you'll overcome it (hopefully) and no longer be a carrier. Quarantine is intended to span that period, remove the doubt, and reduce the risk of transmission. Period.
Your other 'argument' works the same. If you have any object which may have been contaminated then you lock it away until the virus cells die. If I had a car which may have been smothered in the virus I'd shut it in the garage and not go near it. Nobody is suggesting shooting patients with the virus, or scrapping a car in your analogy. Parking it where people can touch it is EXACTLY what you're trying to argue for with not having quarantine for people.