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You will quarantine yourself but will have probably started spreading the virus before you knew you had it.

So everyone on earth should quarantine? That's not the recommendation. You quarantine if you have it, not out of fear.

There are a two options: first is to do social distancing properly and the virus will naturally die out, the other is to "go on as normal" and eventually most people will be infected.

The current low infection rates are because people are changing their behaviour, not because the virus isn't a serious problem. This effort is slightly thwarted by selfish randos who ignore the risks.

> There are a two options: first is to do social distancing properly and the virus will naturally die out, the other is to "go on as normal" and eventually most people will be infected.

Will social distancing really work over the long term though? We can't live in caves forever, eventually we have to come out.

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