eugyppius

Almost all Corona infections happen indoors, and yet every country enamoured of mass containment insists that people spend inordinate amounts of time indoors and places heavy restrictions on going outside.

This can't be that hard to understand. It's not that going outside is more risky, but rather that people who go outside tend to also enter enclosed space with people of other groups. It's about maintaining small exposure capsules.

As an intuition pump, imagine everybody stayed home for 14 days at the same time. No exceptions. The pandemic would be over in two weeks. Why? Because you can at most infect those in the same household, and you either die or recover with immunity.

As an intuition pump, consider that this is an airborne virus that spreads within apartment buildings, from apartment to apartment. It would not be gone in two weeks.

Actually, it would, as long as people did not leave those buildings. It's just a larger capsule. This point isn't really controversial, mind you. Quarantining works. It's just super hard to enforce, and it's inhumane. But everyone agrees it's effective. Worked in Wuhan...