quarantine = quarantena = "forty days". Sailors to Venice during the 1300s were kept isolated for 40 days as a precaution (emphasis on the word precaution) to keep the black plague out, since they reasoned that anyone who might be carrying the disease would begin to show symptoms by then.
The Apollo 11 astronauts were also put into quarantine when they returned, the public were told it was a precaution against unknown "moon diseases".
I don't know where you got your version of quarantine from, to me it would seem a bit pointless (in historical plague-era terms) to wait for people to become obviously infectious with the black death before isolating them. By that point it's too late as the disease is already in your city.
I was referring to recent, modern history. Where did you get your version of them isolating every single Venician when a ship came in? They didn't have a test for black plague. I think 9 negative tests means you are not infected. They isolated people who were at risk until they knew the incubation period was over.
If you want to say there is tonnes of evidence for a two week incubation period for covid say it. But when I said "infected but not sick." I didn't mean those who are incubating and will be sick later, I mean carriers who never have any symptoms, so if you want to say there is lots of evidence of asymptomatic carriers say that.
I'm not sure if you misconstrued my point on purpose or you just didn't understand it.
Where did you get your version of them isolating every single Venician [huh??] when a ship came in? They didn't have a test for black plague.
No they didn't have a test, that's why they quarantined foreign arrivals for a fixed number of days. Hence the concept of quarantine. If they already knew they were infected they wouldn't need to bother waiting for an exact number of days. This isn't rocket science. That's the whole concept of quarantine. I don't disagree that the tyrants in charge are doing bad things for fake reasons but don't look at me like I'm the one who "doesn't understand". For your recent history, I've never heard the word "quarantine" being used to describe known positive cases (useless test anyway), so it might be that the media where you live has been teaching you some fibs.
Knowing the correct meanings of words is important. If you accept some politician's twisted definition of "quarantine" as fact then you're no better than the rest of the sheep.
I think 9 negative tests means you are not infected.
No, that means you've been sucked in to believing government bullshit.
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