Persuasive Redefinition: What Does "Quarantine" Mean in 2020?
Circa 2020, the world (with the notable exception of Sweden) is mostly under government-imposed prohibitions from most economic activity involving travel outside one's home, in response to a viral outbreak or global pandemic. Why? I suspect the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which touts one trillion dollars to dole out [*1], attaches strings of compliance with the World Health Organization's (WHO) recommendations to these loans. WHO recommends the aforementioned policy in response to the pandemic [*2]. Is every leader around the world imposing these policies solely out of benevolent concern for public health and safety as opposed to at least partly ensuring their oligarchs can access IMF cash? By the way, what do we call these recommended measures: "lockdow n," "shelter-at-home," "soft martial law," or "quarantine"? What is a quarantine? From the WHO: "The quarantine of persons is the restriction of activities of or the separ