[fr_freak]

Quarantining well people has been very common. History shows that the first example of quarantines involved ships arriving in ports.

Your example demonstrates the opposite of what you are claiming. Ships arriving at port were assumed to be infected until a proper quarantine showed that they weren't. That is a good part of what a quarantine is for - to protect a healthy city from potentially unhealthy newcomers. What we are doing today is more analogous to allowing the ship to dock and the inhabitants to enter the city, but telling all the city inhabitants to stay at home.

[DugwayDuke]

fr_freak wrote: “Your example demonstrates the opposite of what you are claiming. Ships arriving at port were assumed to be infected until a proper quarantine showed that they weren’t.”

There is little difference in assuming that the crew of a ship may be infected and in assuming that those who have associated with an infected person might also be infected.

It defies the history of epidemics to insist that only the sick can be or have been quarantined.

Amazon has some very good books on the Spanish Flu. You might want to do some research.