LogFAQs > #935827831

When you consider that we're crippling economies, and causing millions to go without paychecks for nearly a month (or longer), it'd be nice to know definitively how WORTH IT these measures actually are. Even with the higher death tolls than influenza, the vast majority of the people sick with COVID-19 still make a full recovery. In reality, most people catch a good virus or two every single year (sometimes more than that), and even though you feel like shit, you understand that the bug will pass, and the world keeps on spinning (No shutdowns. No panic buying. No plummeting stock prices.)

Furthermore, if nobody in or around your life ever catches COVID-19, there's no way to definitively PROVE that you actually would have caught the bug in a scenario WITHOUT the massive quarantine / shutdown measures. (There's a very real chance that the virus would have dissipated on its own without affecting you, even though the media would SAY it's because "The quarantine worked.")

Lastly, even WITH the quarantines, you still have assholes like this guy in Kentucky, who disregard the rules of the quarantine, further undermining the effectiveness of the concept (and we all know damn well, this old geezer in KY is only one of thousands who don't give a shit.)
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/17/us/kentucky-refused-quarantine-coronavirus-trnd/index.html

TL'DR Version: I wish we could know how much of a difference these quarantines actually make for health purposes, because they sure as hell make a difference to people's livelihoods. If people have a choice of feeling like shit for 4 days, or going without pay for a month, I'd wager many would rather just feel like shit and get back to work on day 5.

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