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Telling people when they've been exposed is not a kindness we might extend from the goodness of our hearts when convenient. It's something we must get right, every time, or the conditions that require lockdown today persist until vaccination. We cannot afford people out and about making untraceable contacts three weeks for now, any more than we could three weeks ago.

Every person is a danger to society until this is over. Release is out of the question. The choices here are continued incarceration, or parole.

I can sort of imagine a libertarian solution here, with truth in labeling: as long as I can tell before I get within six feet of you whether you share a connected component with any conscientious objectors, then I can make my own decision about risk. But I cannot imagine that many public places would permit entry to such people.



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