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Originally Posted by mr. tegu
Do people routinely not care if they give their elderly parent the flu? Seems like a self quarantine regardless which is pretty much my point. Whether or not you are tested is not really a reason to give someone else the flu.
That said, people with obvious serious symptoms and higher risks could benefit from testing but opening it up to anyone with a sniffle would be a bad idea. People already abuse the ER unnecessarily. This would make it way worst.
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If it turns out to be the flu, staying home is sufficient. If it turns out to be C19, then you want to, ideally, inform anyone that you have had close contact with for instance people you work with.
Tracking down contacts and testing/isolating them before they can spread it is the only way to really stay on top of it. You need a lot of testing for this approach to work.
The alternative is to treat it like the flu. This could result in many more getting it at the same time and overwhelming hospitals. But there is no way to exactly predict the outcome of a given approach.
So the choice becomes a political/social one based on incomplete information.