# So now my neighborhood has an enforced quarantine **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [March 11, 2020, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-my-neighborhood-has-an-enforced-quarantine/849263 "2020-03-11T12:35:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-my-neighborhood-has-an-enforced-quarantine/849263/1 "2020-03-11T12:35:04Z")
Police nailed the sign up today, across the street 20 yards from my front door. Right under the rooftop where I eat breakfast. Couple just moved in last week, wife just returned from working in Hong Kong. Yesterday, police and an ambulance came and got her. No symptoms or positive test, but she’s home and will have to stay in for two weeks. Twice a day, the health department will come and check for symptoms. I have no idea what connections she had that made her suspect. At last count, there are 33 confirmed cases in the Philippines, all in stable condition. ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-my-neighborhood-has-an-enforced-quarantine/849263/2 "2020-03-11T16:25:28Z")
What does that mean for YOU though? Can you leave your home? Leave the block? Got to the closest store? Can delivery services enter the area? Are the Chinese couple allowed to receive deliveries? ( … and, erm, did you mean for this to go to MPSIMS instead?) ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-my-neighborhood-has-an-enforced-quarantine/849263/3 "2020-03-11T16:30:36Z")
It would have been helpful if the OP had specified they lived in the Philippines at the start of the post rather than imply it at the very end, IMO. And yeah: what does the sign say? Is it just the couple who are quarantined or is it the whole neighborhood? ---
**Author:** ![road\_lobo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d78d45/32.png) [@road\_lobo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/road_lobo)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-my-neighborhood-has-an-enforced-quarantine/849263/4 "2020-03-11T16:41:13Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > It would have been helpful if the OP had specified they lived in the Philippines at the start of the post rather than imply it at the very end, IMO. His location says Cebu, Philippines, like yours says Las Vegas. ---
**Author:** ![Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Springtime_for_Spacers)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-my-neighborhood-has-an-enforced-quarantine/849263/5 "2020-03-11T16:57:32Z")
> [@road\_lobo](#): > > His location says Cebu, Philippines, like yours says Las Vegas. It doesn’t if one is a guest. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2020, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-my-neighborhood-has-an-enforced-quarantine/849263/6 "2020-03-11T18:39:44Z")
> [@Springtime\_for\_Spacers](#): > > It doesn’t if one is a guest. You’re both guests, so that’s not it. Actually, it’s which theme you use to view the board. SultanTheme shows location along with join date, Straight Dope theme does not. So it is a valid criticism that you shouldn’t assume everyone knows your location when you post a location-specific thing. Back to OP: how locked down is this enforced quarantine? 24-hour curfew? Shoot on sight? Ask for a hall pass? ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-my-neighborhood-has-an-enforced-quarantine/849263/7 "2020-03-12T01:14:34Z")
Couple years back, one of California’s historically biggest and baddest wildfires burnt nearby. Mandatory evacuation zone line was about 500 feet as the crow flies, 1/2 mile if the crow has to walk and push a flat tire. (That’s an old joke.) We were packed and ready to run at any moment but the moment never came. We’ve not seen any QUARANTINE notices in our rural mountain area. If one appeared, we’d maybe escape in the little RV. But that raises (not begs) the question: How close must a quarantine be before you flee or self-quarantine yourself? ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-my-neighborhood-has-an-enforced-quarantine/849263/8 "2020-03-12T01:36:55Z")
The sign is advisory, to notify the general public that the physical residence is under quarantine. I don’t think any law restricts the movement or activities of anyone other than the quarantined occupants. The neighborhood is unaffected, there is freedom of movement and activity. How food is brought in, etc. I have no knowledge, but since a health monitor will visit twice a day, I am sure arrangements have been made for grocery delivery, etc. As for me, my life is unaffected in any way, and at the present level, life will go on normally for everyone except the quarantined occupants, who are Philiipino, but the wife had just returned from overseas work in Hong Kong (as I understand it – I do not know them personally – didn’t even know the vacant house was reoccupied)… If she develops into an active case of Corona, the level of quarantine may be escalated, I do not know. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-my-neighborhood-has-an-enforced-quarantine/849263/9 "2020-03-12T01:54:27Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > I have no idea what connections she had that made her suspect. I’m guessing it’s the “Hong Kong” part. Any news of other people being rounded up if they’ve newly-arrived from China? ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-my-neighborhood-has-an-enforced-quarantine/849263/10 "2020-03-12T03:20:36Z")
> [@jtur88](#): > > The sign is advisory, to notify the general public that the physical residence is under quarantine. I don’t think any law restricts the movement or activities of anyone other than the quarantined occupants. The neighborhood is unaffected, there is freedom of movement and activity. How food is brought in, etc. I have no knowledge, but since a health monitor will visit twice a day, I am sure arrangements have been made for grocery delivery, etc. > > As for me, my life is unaffected in any way, and at the present level, life will go on normally for everyone except the quarantined occupants, who are Philiipino, but the wife had just returned from overseas work in Hong Kong (as I understand it – I do not know them personally – didn’t even know the vacant house was reoccupied)… If she develops into an active case of Corona, the level of quarantine may be escalated, I do not know. This sounds like the kind of thing the authorities used to do when kids had measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, etc. I’ve seen pictures of houses with a big QUARANTINE sign nailed by the front door. Only the family was quarantined, and sometimes it was just the sick child confined to their bedroom and visitors were limited. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2020, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-my-neighborhood-has-an-enforced-quarantine/849263/11 "2020-03-12T03:46:43Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > This sounds like the kind of thing the authorities used to do when kids had measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, etc. I’ve seen pictures of houses with a big QUARANTINE sign nailed by the front door. > > Only the family was quarantined, and sometimes it was just the sick child confined to their bedroom and visitors were limited. Exactly. The town traffic cop came over on his motorcycle and put up the sign when my sister or I got a childhood disease, which every kid got at least three of. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-now-my-neighborhood-has-an-enforced-quarantine/849263/12 "2020-03-17T03:38:27Z")
Well, everything is fine so far, no confirmed cases Wife’s sister and mother moved from Manila to their house in the provinces, to flee from the crowded city’s risk. As soon as they got there, the police put them under quarantine, because they came from Manila.