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Yet another flip?
Doctors follow "standards of practice" and these change over time as new research is done. My favorite change in standard of practice is that digital exams of the prostate are no longer done for everyone at your routine check-up.
With COVID they were almost totally in the dark when it first emerged so standards of practice have changed "too many times" from our perspective as non-medical professionals.
A change in standard of practice does not mean the medical profession cannot be trusted.
Like the standard to quarantine the healthy rather than just the ill? When in history has that ever been done?
The very definition of quarantine has it’s origins in the isolation of the asymptomatic
So the history of the word and the history of the practice goes back centuries.
Just google the word quarantine.
The history is pretty easy to check out
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If a serious disease is easily transmitted and takes a long time for symptoms to develop, then quarantining healthy people makes sense. Let's be careful about judging the initial decision to quarantine everyone. We did not really know how serious this disease was in February.
I think the real question is why quarantines have been maintained in some states even after we knew more about the disease. Yes - I'd say a prolonged lockdown, like in CA, is political.
I think the real question is why quarantines have been maintained in some states even after we knew more about the disease. Yes - I'd say a prolonged lockdown, like in CA, is political.
We know now its a hoax and not serious at all.
Tuberculosis killed 1.5 million last year. Transmitted the same way. Why didnt anyone wear mask or quarantine then? Covid hasnt effected near that many lives.
The 1918 Pandemic included quarantine and other practices recommended today.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-commemoration/1918-pandemic-history.htm
Quarantining of healthy people?
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