I do have a growing sympathy with the idea that just because you have a case of COVID that necessarily means you need to stay in the leper colony for a while. BUT I’m not sure about where one draws the line on that.
I for one would like to have at least a semi-quantitative answer to how much risk we’re (socially, legally) permitted to expose each other to as part of normal life, instead of an inconsistent, ad hoc set of rules and expectations.
For example, you can drive, but only licensed, and not when drunk: sensible.
By comparison, you have to isolate when you have covid, but not any other respiratory illness, even now that anyone who wants a vaccine (not everywhere, but at least in the US) can get one (and anyone who can’t and is vulnerable is also more vulnerable to lots of other things): becoming less sensible by the day.
I for one would like to have at least a semi-quantitative answer to how much risk we’re (socially, legally) permitted to expose each other to as part of normal life, instead of an inconsistent, ad hoc set of rules and expectations.
For example, you can drive, but only licensed, and not when drunk: sensible.
By comparison, you have to isolate when you have covid, but not any other respiratory illness, even now that anyone who wants a vaccine (not everywhere, but at least in the US) can get one (and anyone who can’t and is vulnerable is also more vulnerable to lots of other things): becoming less sensible by the day.