The person is careless and dumb, but that's nothing new with sicknesses. THe punitive measures people want, like banning this person from working in certain fields, arresting them with critical charges, etc., are extreme and would probably lead to more infections as the person gets worked through the legal system after their arrest.
No, of course not. You really think there's enough police and enough funding to have a police officer post outside of the hundreds of peoples houses who have been confirmed and just sit there all day? What do they do if someone leaves their house, kill them? Arrest them? Beat them? If you arrest them, where do they go? A public holding cell wheree theyr'e in close proximity with other people penned in?
THere's going to be thousands of active cases of coronavirus soon in the US. While there's ~130 cases or whatever now, there's hundreds more of people who simply don't know they have it because they don't have any symptoms. Beyond that we lack the police state infrastructure to detain people in their homes. China, a totalitarian government that can quickly turn into a police state, has that ability, but no European or American countries do. And that totalitarianism backfired as much as it helped prevent the spread, too.
When the man from Hangzhou returned home from a business trip, the local police got in touch. They had tracked his car by his license plate in nearby Wenzhou, which has had a spate of coronavirus cases despite being far from the epicenter of the outbreak. Stay indoors for...
www.reuters.com
"When the man from Hangzhou returned home from a business trip, the local police got in touch. They had tracked his car by his license plate in nearby Wenzhou, which has had a spate of coronavirus cases despite being far from the epicenter of the outbreak. Stay indoors for two weeks, they requested.
After around 12 days, he was bored and went out early. This time, not only did the police contact him, so did his boss. He had been spotted near Hangzhou's West Lake by a camera with facial recognition technology, and the authorities had alerted his company as a warning. "
No western democracy has this sort of surveillance infrastructure, technology, and bureaucracy. Imagine if a system were in place for your boss to be notified by the govenrment when you're spotted by surveillance cameras at a park.
