re: #54 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Or we could let everyone off who doesn’t appear to be sick, then have the sick ones continue to spread the disease.

Since there are no vaccines, quarantine is the most effective method of containing a contagious illness. It sucks for those quarantined, but for seagoing vessels that has been the procedure for hundreds of years.

It’s a no win situation, given that people can be asymptomatic for up to 14 days (or possibly 24 — that hasn’t verified). The only positive about this situation is that although COVID-19 appears more lethal than the seasonal flu, it is still a mortality rate of less than 2%. Hopefully, the medical community will gain more knowledge about how best to handle this type of crisis; the next time they may be confronting a far more deadly and contagious disease.

According to an NIH document, theoretically, the maximum period of quarantine is one incubation period from the last exposure. Wouldn’t this suggest that every time a new passenger on the ship is diagnosed with the disease, the clock restarts?