# Do we still need a quarantine zone? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [April 25, 2024, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-still-need-a-quarantine-zone/1000738 "2024-04-25T11:28:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2024, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-still-need-a-quarantine-zone/1000738/2 "2024-04-25T11:42:41Z")
> [@Poll: Should we retire the Quarantine Zone?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-should-we-retire-the-quarantine-zone/996173): > > We launched the Quarantine Zone at the start of the pandemic, when the coronavirus was the chief topic of discussion. Now that the crisis has ebbed, QZ gets minimal traffic and the staff is debating what to do with it. We have no plans to delete QZ threads, but we might want to move them to one or more other forums - we’re investigating how much trouble this would be. Alternatively, we could just close QZ to new posts. (Covid questions could still be posted to other forums.) We’ll figure out the… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-still-need-a-quarantine-zone/1000738)._