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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by riquito on Saturday March 14, 2020 @10:10PM (#22580596)
There's no "luckily". It's the exact behaviour that spread the virus all over Italy.

If you love your family and you have some sense of responsibility your duty is to stay where you are for a while. You can embrace your family in the near future.

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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by adrianN on Sunday March 15, 2020 @01:48AM (#22581605)
"For a while" is likely until we have a vaccine and produced enough of it to build up herd immunity. That probably takes a year or more.
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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by NullPrefix on Sunday March 15, 2020 @02:16AM (#22581704)
Is it worse than catching the virus during your trip and bringing it to the family?
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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by adrianN on Sunday March 15, 2020 @02:43AM (#22581812)
No, but for some people it might be worse if you also take into account the probability of catching the virus at this stage. Even in the worst-affected areas at most single-digit percentages of the population have the virus.
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Re:Open letter from Italy to the international scientific co... by fuzzfactor on Sunday March 15, 2020 @05:36PM (#22587014)
And quarantine restricts unexposed confinees to locations having these single-digit percentages which are overwhelmingly higher than the least-affected areas.

It is expected that even with thorough reliable testing and rapid clearance of the non-contagious from confinement, the spread among previously unexposed confinees would be vastly greater than among the unconfined, or further the _isolated clean_.

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