It's a general procedure...probably since summer of last year (2020) that once you are diagnosed or tested positive with Covid-19....you are directed (not asked) to do home-quarantine. The German health authority in the community has a brief letter that is handed out, and it's rather direct....avoid contact....stay at home....if your condition increases, then contact the local hospital and a ICU bed will be made for you.
I essayed a piece last week....talking about a Wiesbaden resident who'd been tested and noted as positive....then told to isolate themselves at their home. The individual (21 years old)...got on a public bus....rode into the midst of town, then went onto Mainz....to grocery-shop at the train station there, and finally asked for help from the train station security folks.
This incident hyped everyone a notch or two.
So the question came up....what happened to the guy and is it normal for quarantine-breakers to walk around?
SWR (public TV for the Pfaz) did the update.
The guy? He went into a locked-up situation....forced to quarantine correctly.
Then the Wiesbaden city authorities kind of admitted....they've had four additional folks over the past six months that required a locked-up situation. If you did the numbers, since day one in Wiesbaden, there's been 8,215 infected people (293k residents). So the vast number of folks did the expected routine....go directly home, and stayed there in some quarantined situation until they tested negative or were proclaimed well by their doctor.
Four out of 8,215 folks who failed on this accountability requirement and ended up in a lock-down situation.
Folks tend to get bent out of shape and hyped-up....when discussing the forced quarantine routine. But if you were in the midst of a cholera epidemic, or Lassa epidemic, or yellow fever epidemic....you'd kinda expect folks to cooperate to some degree. I would even go and suggest that 99-percent of people grasp the situation and generally cooperate.
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