“Two weeks” is quite the litotes. COVID-19 has been around /two years/.

Exactly! Imagine how many diseases we would have eradicated if we all just stayed at home for that long!

Not just diseases, by the way - as Pascal would have said, "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."

Ah, I hadn't grasped your irony. I heard it suggested somewhat seriously recently, which miffed me a bit. Lockdowns were probably the least awful option in early 2020, but as you know it doesn't make them a great idea now.

My understanding is that parent was not joking. It's a great thought experiment though, and let's not forget that humanity did eradicate a number of diseases.

We did, although my response would be that's because vaccines are wonderful. (And, for other diseases, because of improved sanitation and nutrition.)

I wholeheartedly agree if worded as "people who can afford to but don't seem to be able to sit quietly in their homes for two weeks". I guess that's what you intended anyway.

(not everyone can afford to, e.g. they need to work for money for food, or they need to provide _actually_ essential public services.)

I’m more fed up with people who can’t seem to able to grasp that that has been tried before multiple times and shown not to work.

Corona spreads through wildlife and it’s endemic. It’s never going away. Not with vaccines and not with 15 days to stop the spread.