If you're going to forcibly separate people from their family because they are ill, until tests clear them, then people simply won't disclose their conditon to the authorities, which will make things worse, not better. This is a case where the public health experts don't seem to be thinking about the unintended consequences of their proposal given how people will, quite predictably, respond. What am I missing?
A better proposal seems the one due to Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former head of the FDA, who proposes using cell phone data to track self-isolation.
