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If you lock people up in solitary confinement they won't catch it at all. See the problem with your logic here?

There is no problem with their logic. The number of contacts does indeed go up, which is all that they said.

If we did just that for three weeks all of this would be over.

Today for the coronavirus, tomorrow for what else?

Would be nice if we printed some trillions to eradicate smoking. It would still save more lives than corona claimed - 8 million in 2017 https://ourworldindata.org/smoking#smoking-is-one-of-the-lea...

Noooo, it wouldn't be that simple. If it would be, we would all be able to eradicate several viruses..