Isn't that the original point of quarantine though?
No, quarantine has always been about isolating sick/infectious people. Last year they thought people could be infectious with covid for 2 weeks before showing symptoms. I don't believe there is sufficient evidence of that to justify this tyranny.
Quarantine has never previously been isolating healthy people to prevent them getting sick or in case they were infected but not sick.
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.
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