Isn't that the entire job of the police? Are they unable to do their job suddenly?

> How exactly would they find out that people are breaking quarantine at home in time to contain the situation?

It doesn't matter. Enforcing the law is not my job. That is the police's job. They should do it, instead of trampling innocent people's freedoms.

This answer is so hand-wavy. Surely you understand the point the other commenter is making.

We shouldn't expect police to do the impossible trying to enforce our Orwellian quarantine restrictions. We should eliminate the restrictions.

Of course I'd rather they do away with any restrictive laws. But if our lawmakers insist upon them, surely the onus of enforcing them falls upon the state machinery without infringing on citizens rights. "We made an unenforceable rule so now let us throw your rights away en masse so we can enforce it" sounds so dumb.