# What will be the fate of the Quarantine Zone? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 7, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-be-the-fate-of-the-quarantine-zone/943781 "2021-06-07T19:17:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-be-the-fate-of-the-quarantine-zone/943781/1 "2021-06-07T19:17:54Z")
Covid won’t just disappear overnight, but it’s likely there will be fewer threads and discussion about it as the USA reopens (it is a predominantly USA message board) I assume you’ll just close the forum to new threads, but will it be on the main page forever? Maybe have it drop off next March as the two year anniversary approaches? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-be-the-fate-of-the-quarantine-zone/943781/2 "2021-06-07T19:30:42Z")
One option would be to tag them all as COVID-19 and move them to IMHO or MPSIMS and delete the forum. There are currently 1304 threads, so hopefully there would be a way to script the tagging and then the move. Another option would be to demote QZ to a subforum under IMHO or MPSIMS. Or we could just leave it. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-be-the-fate-of-the-quarantine-zone/943781/3 "2021-06-07T20:35:33Z")
You can also mute it yourself from your profile and you will never see it again, if that’s what you want. I do that with the Games, Politics and Marketplace forums and I never see anything about them. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-be-the-fate-of-the-quarantine-zone/943781/4 "2021-06-07T21:43:22Z")
It’s not unthinkable that another novel infectious disease will erupt before COVID-19 becomes passé. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-be-the-fate-of-the-quarantine-zone/943781/5 "2021-06-07T22:18:15Z")
Sad and scary thought. I hope very much the QZ forum fades away from lack of need. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-be-the-fate-of-the-quarantine-zone/943781/6 "2021-06-07T23:07:14Z")
Hope into one hand, shit into the other . . . ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-be-the-fate-of-the-quarantine-zone/943781/7 "2021-06-07T23:13:30Z")
It will all be lost, like tears in the rain. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2021, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-be-the-fate-of-the-quarantine-zone/943781/8 "2021-06-08T00:17:59Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > It’s not unthinkable that another novel infectious disease will erupt before COVID-19 becomes passé. As I said the last time you suggested that: > [@I Pit ILMVI for Complaining Incessantly About Acronyms](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-ilmvi-for-complaining-incessantly-about-acronyms/943142/197): > > Everybody had eventually grown used to perpetual masking and the 6-monthly continuously updated Army-administered booster shots until what later became known as COVID-24 began to circulate. Then it got bad. The few survivors ruefully called it COVID-Max, The Final Edition. Cheers! coffee ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-be-the-fate-of-the-quarantine-zone/943781/9 "2021-06-11T21:14:13Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > but it’s likely there will be fewer threads and discussion about it as the USA reopens Or we’ll need to get a bigger computer. _Insert Spooky Music here_