Quarantine the sick or those most at risk. Let the rest of us work.

No. Quarantine restricts the movement of anyone we don't know if they're sick or not. That's ALWAYS been the idea.

Nope. Wrong again. Like always.
You just seem to love tyrannical government impositions, don't you?

quar·an·tine
/ˈkwôrənˌtēn/

noun: quarantine; plural noun: quarantines
a state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are placed.

verb: quarantine; 3rd person present: quarantines; past tense: quarantined; past participle: quarantined; gerund or present participle: quarantining
impose isolation on (a person, animal, or place); put in quarantine.

Under your definition, we will be in quarantine forever...literally. Afterall, I don't know if you're sick or not so ...

Right there. That's the part. It's nothing to do with knowing who's sick and who's healthy - it's to do with who COULD be sick and who COULD be spreading. You've proven yourself wrong without knowing it.

Hey wannabe genius ... prove I've been exposed.
The onus is on you.

We all have. It's a pandemic. Unless you've been holed up inside your house this entire time anyway, in which case, what are you complaining about?

You are quite literally, about the stupidest person I've ever encountered.
Please don't reproduce.
I have NOT been exposed. LOL ... I am laughing AT you right now. "We all have" is about the most laughable unfounded and most ignorant proposition I've heard yet.

I live in a county with 200,000 people. 202 have the virus. 7 have died. Do you have any idea how dumb you sound right now?

Tell me you doofus, who was I exposed to? I need a name. A time. A place.
If I had been exposed, what would be the repercussions? The results? Think. If you can.

Damn. You are beyond help.

So, you live in a county with 202 known to have the infection?

So using standard multipliers projected from data in places that have already dealt with the peak of the outbreak, that means anywhere up 4,000 people in your county could have the infection without having experienced symptoms. 4,000 out of 200,000 people - that means there's a 2% chance that you're one of them, and let's conservatively say that you have 20 friends in the county that you see on a regular basis - probability theory puts a 33% chance that one of your friends has the infection and doesn't know it.

These are not small numbers! Even in your county, these are numbers where transmissions becomes very big, very quickly, unless the spread is interrupted.

You're using modeling numbers that have been proven to be faulty. You are committing a classic blunder, using a faulty model with faulty assumptions, then deciding to make a decision on an unproven, unprovable hypothesis and arguing like hell that everyone else is wrong.

They're your numbers, genius!

And your models. The numbers aren't at fault. How you're misusing them is the problem.

Clear as mud. Here are the antithesis (of logic and reason) talking points:

~Basically, you can't leave the house for any reason, but if you have to, then you can.
~Masks are useless, but maybe you have to wear one, it can save you, it is useless, but maybe ...oh, it is mandatory as well.
~Stores are closed, except those that are open.
~You should not go to hospitals unless you have to go there. Same applies to doctors, you should only go there in case of emergency, provided you are not too sick.
~This virus is deadly but still not too scary, except that sometimes it actually leads to a global disaster.
~Gloves won't help, but they can still help.
~Everyone needs to stay HOME, but it's important to GO OUT.
~There is no shortage of groceries in the supermarket, but there are many things missing when you go there in the evening, but not in the morning. Sometimes.
~The virus has no effect on children except those it affects.
~Animals are not affected, but there is still a cat that tested positive in Belgium in February when no one had been tested, plus a few tigers here and there…
~You will have many symptoms when you are sick, but you can also get sick without symptoms, have symptoms without being sick, or be contagious without having symptoms. Oh, my..
~The virus remains active on different surfaces for two hours, no, four, no, six, no, we didn't say hours, maybe days? But it takes a damp environment. Oh no, not necessarily.
~The virus stays in the air - well no, or yes, maybe, especially in a closed room, in one hour a sick person can infect ten, so if it falls, all our children were already infected at school before it was closed. But remember, if you stay at the recommended social distance, however in certain circumstances you should maintain a greater distance, which, studies show, the virus can travel further, maybe.
~We count the number of deaths but we don't know how many people are infected as we have only tested so far those who were "almost dead" to find out if that's what they will die of…and if they had ANY single symptom of the virus, we count it as a virus death to get funding.
~We have no treatment, except that there may be one that apparently is not dangerous unless you take too much (which is the case with all medications).
~We should stay locked up in quarantine until the virus disappears, but it will only disappear if we achieve collective immunity, so we have to mingle for it to circulate … but we must no longer be locked up for that...

What you're missing is:

How many doctors are there in your county? How many nurses? How many patients can they see at the same time and still give proper care? How many of them - the doctors and nurses - can get sick before their capacity drops below the number of people who get sick?

Coronavirus isn't that dangerous AS LONG AS THE MEDICAL SERVICES CAN KEEP UP WITH THE CASELOAD. And that's the question you should be asking: what happens if everyone in your county gets sick at the same time? What can you do to make sure that only as many people get sick as your county can handle?

You're in panic mode and not thinking clearly. The chances of that happening are zero.

Zero.

Who's panicking? I've done nothing but crunch numbers. You're the one wall-of-texting as many muddles as you can think of.

Jesus bob, is that how you talk to people in real life? Do you get bitch slapped alot? Those aren't debate skills, you sound like my buddies daughter going through "the change".

Sometimes. And no, I've never been bitch slapped. I'm a college professor and I see the dumbest of the dumb sometimes. Nothing is worse than a young liberal, big-government fool who thinks the state is there to protect us. This guy takes the cake ... for today.

They made YOU a college professor? Well, I think we've found the problem here.

Yep, I also do some consulting work for a couple of Fortune 15 companies.

And my wife is a nurse, my daughter is a nurse, my nephew is a surgeon.
They're all, to a person, amazed at how people and government have over-reacted to a virus that will kill fewer than a typical flu season.

Bwa ha ha ha ha, college professor my ass. Wow, got my chuckle in for the day.

Glad to help.
Been doing that since 2012. I took two years off to finish some research and write my management dissertation in 2015 & 2016 however.

If "we all have" been exposed, there is no need to quarantine