I'm no virologist but in my mind I dont understand how quarantining a city will address the problem with the #coronavirus outbreak.

The whole outbreak started with one person of course. with it infecting a whole city even if the outbreak is entirely limited to that city how will quarantining help long term. Eventually they need to remove the quarantine and vaccines are years away. When they eventually do if even one person has the disease still then it will just start al. over again.

Obviously it makes sense to qtine individuals who traveled from an effected area for a set number of days to see if they are carrying the disease before releasing them. That sort of quarantine makes sense. But a whole city, not sure how that will help.

@freemo maybe just the chinese way of dealing with the ensuing social unrest? I've seen some videos of mobs in wuhan that are on a witch hunt barring the doors of apartments belonging to the infected. This behavior might even be socially accepted there, I don't know.

@Halbeard Yes I could see that, an attempt to make it look like they are doing something when in fact they are not.

I wonder how many infected people who just have the flu and not the coronavirus are being attacked mistakenly, probably a lot.