All they are talking about is the quarantines that we used to have as kids in the 1950s.
If you are found to be in the infectious stage, then you are told to stay at home and a “quarantine” sign is posted out front.
“This study gives us real reason for optimism, that even reaching back to a time where there were no antiviral medications and no well-matched vaccines to fight a pandemic, the things communities did in terms of traditional public health tools — isolation, quarantine, social-distancing, canceling schools — made a big difference and have a lot of potential to mitigate the severity of a lethal disease pandemic.”
Yes, that is what the article is talking about, and that is a good idea. That may NOT be the plans that are currently in place, depending on the event severity and location.
You were talking about an era in which people have ‘a bit’ more common sense and can use reasoning/logic.
Today we have inner city zombies, some, with the aid of Obamaphones, will gladly act flash mob on a new tweet of rumor.