Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Not true, actually. If you have a HIGHLY contagious disease, everybody eventually gets it regardless - see chickenpox before there was a vaccine. Quarantine of INFECTED makes sense if the disease is infectious, has fairly lethality, but not HIGHLY contagious - see smallpox before vaccinations.
But quarantining the vast bulk of uninflected so they don’t get a disease has never really worked. Or if it You believe it has, please cite me a case where it did.
It wasn’t to stop us from all getting it, it was to stop too many of us from getting it at the same time. Do you even understand what happened? This was a resource management issue they had to balance. Of course herd immunity will eventually happen but we couldn’t have everyone getting sick all at once or else the numbers would have been way worse.