[chatmasta]

Fair enough. But I hope that line of reasoning has limits. After all, it would be safer to send everyone by truck to a quarantine camp instead of back to their apartment where they might infect their neighbors in the lobby, wouldn’t it?

[ceejayoz]

That's actually how China handled it. If you test positive, you don't go home - you go to a facility to be quarantined and treated if necessary.

[walterbell]

That's been proposed in the northeast US (MA, NY, NJ, CT, RI). Hotels would be used for mandatory quarantine. Tests and contact tracing (manually, then smartphone) would determine who gets isolated.