Length of isolation time - is it enough?

[Mitz]

I've always been a little confused as to why people were initially told to isolate for 10 days. It didn't take long for it to increase to 14. However, someone tested positive a month after developing symptoms and according to what's written down below; people who are symptomatic can shed virus for 19 days. If that's true wtf is the point of isolating for only 14 days?

... In a separate study published on Thursday in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 42% of 78 close contacts of Covid-19 patients in a hospital in Wuhan, China, showed no symptoms of the disease. The researchers found the asymptomatic study participants had a shorter duration of viral shedding, a shorter duration of disease and were less likely to pass it on. The asymptomatic cases were more likely to be women, and to only shed the virus (shedding refers to the replication of the virus inside the body being released into the environment, such as on to surfaces or into the air) for eight days compared with 19 for those with symptoms.

 

[crustyfolker]

With this info it raises the question, will we ever be free of Covid?. I had an idea that would get rid of most cases but that would be in doubt. The idea was to get things in place that needed to be, ie set up delivary services for essential items, one shop per house per week, and a milk man to get your daily bread and milk, services in place for those with special needs, disabled and elderly etc. then lock down for 6 weeks. These new studies show it's possible for Covid to last for ages if contaminated with it. I think a load of folks have had Covid with no signs, but no one knows what the future holds with the actual virus itself. I think it has become mutated and there are multiple variations, some killers some not and it depends on the variant caught. The only other idea about the Virus is maybe those who suffer most or even die apart from an underlying illness my guess is it is probably down to your genes, maybe some folks have a certain gene or genes that the Covid virus uses to devastating effect. A gene that is more common among the BAME community would answer why people from those backgrounds get hit so hard by Covid. Who knows, unless this is some worldwide con to see how long the Gov can imprison people and slowly reduce the things they can do in their spare time. something about the whole thing doesn't ring true to me.