Ah, but they'll remind you that there is a relatively long incubation period during which you're infectious. So your social responsibility to avoid spreading it starts by avoiding coming into contact with it in the first place.
I honestly think that's a fair argument to make. But followed up with: the impossibly rapidly developed (by Israel) vaccine has no adverse affects, just trust us! -- then it becomes a little more dubious.
So your social responsibility to avoid spreading it starts by avoiding coming into contact with it in the first place.
That sounds like some 'thought crime' bullshit to me. One of my parents forwarded to me that scam text about how national quarantine was coming by order of the president (srsly u guys!). I mentioned how it violated a number of the fundamental amendments for denying life, liberty, and access to property and that my 2A would be there to back up the violated amendments if someone tried to put me on house arrest without due process. Hell, they won't even run the test on people without them showing basically all of the symptoms to verify it's CoVid-19 because the kit stock is insufficient.
I think you're right that enforcing rules around this would probably end up violating basic liberties, but I think the majority would find this argument compelling.
As far as I know, being infectious before showing symptoms is just a fact of this disease. People are already scared. One could make a persuasive argument that avoiding spreading to others necessarily includes avoiding contracting the infection in the first place. And the best way to do this is boost your immunity through a vaccine (in addition to the semi-isolation measures already taking place).
I'm not saying it's right, but I'm saying a lot of people would agree with the above.
being infectious before showing symptoms is just a fact of this disease.
Sure, I can buy that. Virus particles are multiplying to a low enough level to infect another source without causing full blown symptoms. However, bear in mind that most of these infections will spread when particulate moisture droplets are expelled. Why do you think that some of the symptoms are cough and sneezing for some infectious diseases? It's an enriched feature of the infection to increase it's likelihood to spread. So, whereas a person that is contagious without sneezing/coughing may spread the disease, it'd be through saliva, such as sharing drinks, kissing, etc. Since I don't go around kissing, drooling, or otherwise spreading my saliva around on people, it's really unlikely that a person will be as infectious/contagious as a CoVid carrier after symptoms show.
> One could make a persuasive argument that avoiding spreading to others necessarily includes avoiding contracting the infection in the first place
I could make a persuasive argument that all of the infected need immediately incinerated with a flammenwerfer, too, since fire will destroy all the infections that might spread around. By killing all of the disease particles, there need not be fear of further infections. That doesn't mean my argument is particularly sound, but I could make it nevertheless.
> And the best way to do this is boost your immunity through a vaccine (in addition to the semi-isolation measures already taking place).
Probably the best way, other than catching the disease and working through it. By the time vaccines are in full production, my bet is that spring weather and sunshine will have already eliminated most of the free virus particles in the environment and this episode will move into the SARS/MERS category of being forgotten for another 10-15 years.
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