People should be in quarrantine for more than 14 days U of Calgary

[applegrove]

and Chinese researchers say. Quarantine should be increased to 3 weeks. CTV News.

[SheltieLover]

1. K&R

[Hoyt]

2. Definitely seemed short.

[Ex Lurker]

3. Why not a month, a year, or ten years?

Keep making the restrictions more onerous, keep moving the goalposts, and people will simply ignore them. The people making these sorts of recommendations badly need the input of some psychologists, sociologists, and economists, because they have not the first clue about human behavior and how the real world operates

[SlogginThroughIt]

4. um nobody suggested any of that.

I think what is being said is that the original thought of 2 weeks may not have been enough. But sure let’s equate that to 10 years.

[applegrove]

5. This is science. If an extra week stops the amount of virus out there,

then fewer will get sick. Curve will slope down faster then we can all go back to work quicker.

[TeamPooka]

6. so you are against learning and adapting? It shows.

[iemitsu]

7. Go back to lurking.

Comments like yours are not helpful.

[uponit7771]

9. +1, can you imagine what the reaction is going to be at the end of April when Trump says 4 more wks?

You're 100% right, they're great at the biological science but 100% ... STANK ... at human behavior science.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

8. 5 days incubation, 14 days infected, that's 19 days. Add 2 for safety, that's 3 weeks.

Sorry, I can't link to where I got the numbers -- someone on DU posted a graph over a month ago and I've been using those numbers until experts say otherwise.