T_R_Oglodyte
TUG Lifetime Member
A story from the Seattle Times that illustrates practical difficulties. For background, King County bought an EconoLodge motel that was on the market for use as a quarantine facility. So they put a homeless person there who had been exposed and was likely showing symptoms (or else they wouldn't have been tested).
But the key element in the story in the story is the simple impossibility of maintaining quarantine or isolation of the numbers of people where that would be needed. We are not going to contain. We need to flatten the curve.
Person who left coronavirus quarantine facility in Kent against instructions tests negative for virus
A person awaiting COVID-19 test results unexpectedly left an emergency quarantine facility at a Kent motel on Friday morning, releasing a wave of anger and worry from officials within the south King County city who protested the siting of the...
www.seattletimes.com
But the key element in the story in the story is the simple impossibility of maintaining quarantine or isolation of the numbers of people where that would be needed. We are not going to contain. We need to flatten the curve.