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forty days of doing nothing that somehow became civilization's oldest superpower.
means A period of isolation imposed on people, animals, or things that may carry disease, to stop it from spreading.
from From the Italian 'quarantina,' meaning a period of forty days, built on 'quaranta' (forty), descended from Latin 'quadraginta.' The number wasn't arbitrary: in plague-haunted port cities, ships suspected of carrying disease were held offshore for forty days before anyone could disembark — a span echoing the forty days that recur throughout biblical tradition. The word later loosened from its literal forty to mean any enforced isolation.
- name origin
- From Italian quaranta giorni, meaning forty days
- venetian invention
- Plague-era Venice pioneered it in the 1300s
- before forty
- Earlier isolation lasted thirty days: trentino
- yellow flag
- Ships flew a yellow flag to signal quarantine
- moon edition
- Apollo 11 astronauts were quarantined after returning
wuhan lockdown 2020 — 11 million residents of wuhan, china locked down for 76 days starting january 23, 2020
cruise ship diamond princess — 3,711 passengers and crew quarantined aboard off yokohama in february 2020, resulting in 712 confirmed covid cases
australian hotel quarantine — mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine for all returning travelers in australia from march 2020 to may 2021