Coronavirus: Let’s Talk About Quarantine
American Spectator,
by
Melissa Mackenzie
Original Article
Posted By: MissMolly,
3/2/2020 4:39:16 AM
Coronavirus, the mysterious illness blanketing the world courtesy China, continues to spread. The United States has been, until this past weekend, spared breakout flares. They are occurring now. Soon, and with better and more ubiquitous testing, America’s COVID-19 numbers will spike. That will scare a lot of people. It shouldn’t. It’s what happens when the government broadens testing criteria and has more effective tests.
When local COVID-19 hot spots happen, some communities, school systems, hospital systems, etc. will be under quarantine. Many of those tangentially related to the outbreak will be asked to quarantine at home. It’s time to think ahead about this possibility.
If the news had been reporting the flu deaths at this level for the last 10 years, this would be a nothing burger.
The funniest thing I have heard was, "As soon as we get a coronavirus vaccine everyone will refuse to get it and move on."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 3/2/2020 8:50:57 AM (No. 334278)
Quarantines aren't new in the US. When I was a young whipersnapper, measles, TB quarantines existed. The coronavirus has been around for ages, just look at a label from a Lysol Disinfectant Wipe. I suspect this newer version is a product of the Wuhan Biological Lab. A super duper version to say the least. Our medical experts will get this under control. The Chinese have a bigger problem.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
davew 3/2/2020 9:34:48 AM (No. 334318)
The virus itself is really not the problem. SARS related viruses simply have the ability to infect deeper levels of the lungs than a cold which affects upper respiratory tissues. The major risk is from opportunistic pneumonia infections that can quickly fill the lungs with fluid and prevent oxygen from getting into the body.
Although we don't have a COVID-19 vaccine yet we do have a pretty good pneumonia vaccine. One shot of Prevnar protects anyone over 18 for life from about 13 of the most common pneumococcal bacteria types. If you want a little extra insurance get a Prevnar shot which is free on most insurance plans and you can get it at CVS without a doctor's visit.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
lakerman1 3/2/2020 9:47:42 AM (No. 334329)
allow me to point out how federal government policies can have impacts on sick workers.
Bear with me here.
Staying home when sick is clearly logical, especially when sick with a communicable disease.
but when AIDS emerged in the late 1970s, and was concentrated in the male homosexual population, the federal government and some state governments struggled with the politics of the disease. federal rules on healthcare came out that directed hospitals not to tell the health care workers if a patient had AIDS - only those directly involved in treatment decisions. But that left a gap in protecting the hospital employees in self protection, so the regulations said, 'treat every patient as if they had a communicable disease - glove up, mask up, and the like.
i remain convinced that if AIDS had not emerged as a homosexual disease, quarantines would have been used.
let's further complicate the matter by taking note of the 1991 americans with Disabilities Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act. both of which put the federal government and its employees directly into the HR decision making policies of organizations.
suffice it to say, organizations tried to cope with all of those federal rules by coming up with 'no fault' attendance policies, some of which I have arbitrated. No fault means exactly what it says. no excuses - just a point system for absences that will result in termination of the employee. And as you can conclude, that would cause a sick employee to stay at work, or come to work sick.
(About 20 years ago, I arbitrated a 'no fault' case at a Fortune 100 company, where the employee had missed a day of work because a snow storm didn't allow him to drive in to work. and then he received a call in the middle of his midnight shift from a nurse at a local hospital, as follows: 'Your mother has been admitted to the hospital, and I can't tell you what is wrong with her (federal health privacy act) but if you want to see her alive one last time, you had better come in right now. '
the employee left work, informing his foreman of the situation, and was fired for point accumulation under a no fault attendance policy. (I reinstated him with full back pay and benefits.) And, the mother, in her 40s, survived the heart attack.
Therefore, if you go to the super market today, or the drug store, or the convenience store, and the clerk is sneezing and coughing on you, your purchase, or your money, remember how this all came about. the chances are that a no fault attendance policy is in effect.
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