Common sense: quarantine is for sick people

According to one report:

United Kingdom experts have warned indirect deaths from the pandemic – due to cancer, heart attack, mental health and more – will exceed that of the virus itself.

A devastated economy doesn't just have financial cost, it has a devastating human life cost, one being cavalierly ignored by those accusing dissenters of not having due regard for human life in their devotion to staying the course, at any cost.

And this is all in the context of telling people to take draconian & sustained erosions of natural freedom seriously for the greater good while allowing Marxist protesters to flout basic physical distancing requirements and restrictions on assembly. It has never been more obvious just how much politics is involved in imposed restrictions and how little common sense.

It is urgent governments admit they did their best but got it wrong, and start doing what we should have always been doing.

• Quarantining of sick people must be strictly enforced.
• Isolation of high risk people must be highly recommended, along with their personal responsibility to avoid unknowing transmission from healthy/asymptomatic people.
• Clusters of high risk people in venues like nursing homes must mandate the highest standards of PPE and personal/environmental sanitising.
• Everyone else must maintain basic physical distancing, hand hygiene and cough/sneeze etiquette, but otherwise be allowed natural freedoms of assembly, movement and trade/commerce.

It's just common sense, really. Quarantine is for sick people, and people at high risk should be responsible for avoiding the general public. For everyone else with a morbidity risk if infected no higher than a bad flu year, it should be life as normal with some sensible precautions.