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Originally Posted by FAX
Which raises another of the crucially important unknowns, Mr. tk13.
If it's true that hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of people have had the disease and presented few or no symptoms (didn't even know they had it), are we to isolate those people, ravage their livelihoods, destroy their businesses and bank accounts and scare them half to death? Or is it wiser to isolate only those individuals who are "at-risk" based on current knowledge (i.e. the elderly and those with existing compromised immune systems and/or breathing-related problems)?
FAX
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The right answer is to get out ahead of it like South Korea did and isolate everyone who tests positive. But it's too late for that.
In theory if you shut everything down for a couple, three weeks you probably increase your odds if everyone obeys the order. Problem is people here aren't going to obey the order. It's hard to say you can just let people mill about normally when there's a disease spreading around we don't know everything about. We don't entirely know if there are superspreaders of this disease, and there are cases where people who seem to be doing fine deteriorate rapidly in a very short period of time. That's a dangerous wheel to spin. I don't think you're ever going to get any health official to agree to that.