For what it’s worth.
My thoughts on lockdowns
Let’s get the CDC definitions out-of-the-way.
#1 Quarantine:
separates and restricts the movement of people who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick.
#2 Isolation:
separates sick people with a contagious disease from people who are not sick.
#3 Cohorting :
In the context of this guideline, this term applies to the practice of grouping patients infected or colonized with the same infectious agent together to confine their care to one area and prevent contact with susceptible patients
By definition the WHO, CDC, NIH , NCBI screwed up from the beginning.
So I might as well start at the very beginning.
The first large scale organized efforts to control epidemics date back to the 14th century and the plague. With the spread of disease and the distance between flareups. It was recognized to be associated with shipping and commerce. Suspect vessels passengers were order not to disembark for varying periods of time . (quarantine)The figure most historians settled on is 40 days. That was of course in order to prevent infected people from spreading the disease on shore.
Those basic parameters and definitions I cited earlier held for 600 years.
I’m going to skip over a multitude of guidelines and pandemic planning pamphlets the CDC has issued for every year since the 1950’s . I think just a few will be enough to establish what the parameters have been in recent years for since the CDC . Even though the same information is put out yearly.
ISOLATION AND QUARANTINE: CONTAINMENT STRATEGIES FOR SARS 2003
Isolation and Quarantine
Before discussing the role of quarantine as a component of community response and containment for SARS, it is necessary to distinguish, from a public health perspective, between the related practices of isolation and quarantine. Both are usually imposed by health officials on a voluntary basis; however, federal, state, and local officials have the authority to impose mandatory quarantine and isolation when necessary to protect the public’s health. (not a mention of lockdowns)
Isolation refers to the separation and restricted movement of illpersons who have a contagious disease in order to prevent its transmission to others. It typically occurs in a hospital setting, but can be done at home or in a special facility. Usually individuals are isolated, but the practice may be applied in larger groups.
Quarantine refers to the restriction of movement or separation of sick persons from those who I haven’t been exposed. Quarantine usually takes place in the home and may be applied at the individual level or to a group or community of EXPOSED persons.
Nowhere does it talk about imposing quarantine or isolation on healthy people.
ISOLATION AND QUARANTINE: CONTAINMENT STRATEGIES FOR SARS 2003 - Learning from SARS - NCBI Bookshelf
2012 Quarantine, Isolation, and Cohorting: From Cholera to Klebsiella
Isolation is defined as the separation of persons with communicable diseases from those who are healthy. This public health practice, along with quarantine, is used to limit the transmission of infectious diseases and provides the foundation of current-day cohorting.
Quarantine, or cohorting when patients are infected with the same pathogen, interrupts the spread of infections, just as the contagious disease hospitals did during the epidemics of the 18th and 19th centuries.
Quarantine, Isolation, and Cohorting: From Cholera to Klebsiella
Out of every strategy or plan dealing with pandemics. There was one thing in common for over SIX decades of preparedness.
Quarantine or isolation of the healthy is warned against due to economic factors as a strategy as a way to contain a pathogen.
Lacking a vaccine what is needed to severely weaken the impact of the second wave. Herd immunity is reached natures way. For a good explanation I would like the link the press conference dealing with immunity from Dr. Dan Erickson. But YouTube and big tech censored it.I have to give you a link with the video embedded.
They were 100% right about natural immunity and the effect it would’ve had for containing the pandemic.
https://videa.hu/videok/hirek-politika/dr.-dan-erickson-and-artin-covid-19-covid19-VG8JqVtaxFfiJDRk
Once 70% plusof the population has been exposed to the virus. It blocks reproduction by limiting the pool of people that can be exposed.
600 years of tradition instantly changed in 2020 for God knows why.
The lock down in the country has prevented that from happening. We aren’t out and intermingling which is mother nature‘s way to counter the effects of a pandemic.
The best example currently I can find of this effect is the 1968 Hong Kong flu.
Because the new virus retained the
neuraminidase (N) antigen N2, persons who had been exposed to the 1957 Asian flu pandemic apparently retained immune protection against the 1968 Hong Kong flu pandemic. This would explain the mildness of the 1968 outbreak
1968 flu pandemic | History, Deaths, & Facts | Britannica
Lockdown prevents us from building that immunity and that greatly increased the effects of a second wave.
So here’s the report card on the three definitions at top.
#1 Quarantine:
separates and restricts the movement of people who were exposed to a contagious disease to see if they become sick.
F instead they restricted the movement of healthy people.
#2
Isolation:
separates sick people with a contagious disease from people who are not sick.
F minus
#3 Cohorting :
grouping patients infected or colonized with the same infectious agent together to confine their care to one area and prevent contact with susceptible patients
F minus Cuomo and other boneheaded governors
Heard immunity was being prevented by the lockdown.
So let’s finish the checklist above.
People not ill were quarantine.
Economics weren’t taken into consideration beforehand.
Sick people were forced into nursing homes by Governors mandate.
Forced lockdown weakens the whole world’s ability to fight off this pandemic and all but guaranteed the current second wave we are suffering from.
Please forgive my rambling shotgun organization efforts.