San Francisco declares emergency over monkeypox spread

Yeah, no, there were no enforced quarantines in places other than East Asian countries.

An enforced quarantine was what they did in Venice 750 years ago: armed men on the beaches, armed men aboard galleys patrolling the quarantine anchorage, quarantined ship crews on their ships until 40 days without a case of disease aboard ship.

Quarantine is a rather brutal process -- but it's better than losing significant numbers of your population to infectious disease.

(The USA has lost roughly 1/3 of 1% of the population or 1,030,000 to Covid19 in 2 1/2 years. The excess deaths suggest that the actual losses exceed that, but absent actual testing, who can tell.)

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