Hiding In Your House

Hiding at home doesn't affect Covid rates. This is not particularly surprising since mass quarantining of the healthy is an entirely novel concept never tried before in human history. That is hasn't affected outcomes is not surprising.

What will be surprising is if people who have questioned the wisdom of these experimental public policies ever receive an apology from those who pointed accusatory fingers at them for insensitively endangering their neighbors. They weren't endangering their neighbors, but it will be very surprising if they ever receive the apologies they deserve.

Stay-at-home policy is a case of exception fallacy: an internet-based ecological study
A recent mathematical model has suggested that staying at home did not play a dominant role in reducing COVID-19 transmission. The second wave of cases in Europe, in regions that were considered as COVID-19 controlled, may raise some concerns. Our objective was to assess the association between stay…