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ibmalone

Re: What to do if you're contact trace positive... Huh?

@"If you know you have been exposed, you quarantine. "

Nah. You want to talk it up, but that's not what happens. You go home avoid contact, wear a mask outside, wash your hands.

No. You do not go outside. You might still wear a mask and avoid contact with other people in your household, but you don't leave. This is what sensible countries have been implementing anyway. (Let's not waste time wondering what the UK is doing this week.)

@"It's all about preventing the spread of disease, m'dear AC."

Yeh, and the point at which you could potentially spread the disease was 11 days earlier and no time machine is invented, so you should do the protocols anyway.

If you've been a contact of someone who had the disease then the point is that if you have caught it from them then you have not had it for long and are likely in the presymptomatic stage, you may not even be spreading it yet. If you got it in the past week then how were you spreading it 11 days earlier? (Without the use of that time machine.)

"Face coverings" (not surgical masks, most countries are having people use improvised masks) are slightly better than nothing, but they're far inferior to not being anywhere near other people.

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