Originally Posted by
usedtobeimportant
Those countries that have exercised extremely stringent quarantine results (i.e. 14 days self isolation in a hotel room even if your a returning citizen) have essentially eradicated COVID19 in a few months. I know personally of Australia and New Zealand who have not started to reopen schools.
So I think its individual short term pain for long term group gain.
Only true if there is a miraculous vaccine or other cure in short order, or they completely isolate from the rest of the world forever (which is obviously never going to happen). Otherwise, they've just postponed both the short term pain AND the long term pain.
The "short term pain for long term group gain" approach would be to do very limited quarantine of at-risk individuals, let the rest of the population get sick and recover, and then move on without fear of the germ.