Cyclo....Just tried to access the new covid board, but for some reason the "Site not found" denied further progress.
This may be of interest, if you folks can skim through to the real business.
https://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2762808/incubation-period-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-from-publicly-reported Its a sneaky and tenacious little bugger, with a relatively short incubation period in some cases. It's also a bit quick from onset of the specific symptoms to hospitalisation in susceptible individuals.
The published research above gives an insight into the reason for the specified periods of isolation, but as with any research, that was then and later events will yield more data and consequently change recommended behaviour.
Remember, staying in relative isolation and avoiding contact with "outsiders" keeps you safer. It also prevents you spreading your viral particles (if you are unlucky to have picked it up) into other groups outside your own immediate group, during your incubation period, when you have no symptoms but are in the phase where the virus is multiplying and you are capable of passing the infection on.
Living in an area with few reported cases is a relatively safe space but driving miles for a quiet walk is plain crazy....you don't know who you're going to meet, and in the worst case scenario you will pick up a dose, maybe from miles away and then bring that back home. That changes the dynamic, as the infection is now introduced into a previously safer zone. Then, with no symptoms, in your own incubation period you are merrily spreading it amongst your own group. Then those infected folks make their own way into the wider environment, highly contagious but with no symptoms in their own incubation period.
So while the inconvenience and disruption is a pain, the Government rulings to stay home wherever possible make sense, providing everyone plays their part. Needless to say 100% isolation ain't gonna happen, but the published rules are understood and obeyed by the majority. There will always be chancers. The measures will not stop the spread, but without them the rate of spread would be far, far, higher. In that scenario healthcare resources can not possibly cope with demand.
That published research makes grim reading.
Swarfy
Apologies for posting here, but others may also not be able to access the new board at this time.