There is a sticky at the top of the Quarantine Zone with the forum rules.
Basically, to prevent politics and debates from completely swamping the forum and to prevent overlap between forums, political threads related to Covid-19 still go in Politics and Elections, and debates related to Covid-19 still go in Great Debates. Most other Covid-19 topics go in the Quarantine Zone.
Breaking News threads or threads that wish a purely factual GQ type discussion should be clearly marked as such. Those threads will be moderated per MPSIMS Breaking News and GQ rules respectively.