A quarantine is supposed to be 40 days long. The term comes from 'quaranta giorni' (literally '40 days'), the length of time ships were required to isolate outside of Dubrovnik, Croatia to help prevent the spread of plague.
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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson