This is really an amazing article, with the WaPo in January of 2020 outlining all the reasons that mass quarantine was not a good strategy for the pandemic, which represented the state of the science before we lost our mind a couple of months later https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/unprecedented-chinese-quarantine-could-backfire-experts-say/2020/01/24/db073f3c-3ea4-11ea-8872-5df698785a4e_story.html

This article is like a broadcast from some media alternate reality, brought to us by Spock with a beard. I have some quotes below, which really do reflect the thrust of the article.

Read to the bottom of this thread, and there is even (from the WaPo!) a shout-out that the President can use the 1807 insurrection act to suppress any domestic unrest. Basically an entire article of material that today would get your account banned on Twitter.

"In the US, mandatory limits on movement for people in whole cities or regions have received little serious consideration in planning for disease outbreaks like the coronavirus infection now sweeping across China,according to public-health authorities"

“The truth is those kinds of lockdowns are very rare and never effective.”

“They’re doing [lockdowns in China] because people who are in political leadership always think that if you do something dramatic and visible that you’ll gain popular support,” Gostin said. “They couldn’t have any sound public health advice.”

"In a 2007 report to the CDC on responding to a flu pandemic, an expert panel makes no recommendation to use mandatory lockdowns, even in the most severe, or “Category 5” outbreak"

“The implementation of conventional geographic quarantine imposes significant opportunity costs and may result in the diversion of significant resources and assets that might be used to better effect supporting less draconian disease-containment measures,” according to the report

“If directed by the President pursuant to the Insurrection Act, the military may suppress domestic unrest associated with resistance to a state quarantine,” the document stated, referring to the 1807 law that outlines presidential power to combat domestic unrest.

Bearded Spock soon returned to his own timeline, but not before the WaPo showed him the secret button he could push to kill whatever stories he didn't agree with on social media. @ElonBachman @boriquagato