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Old Mar 5, 2020 | 9:14 am
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Visconti
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Originally Posted by notquiteaff
Do we close the barn door when 1 of 10 horses has escaped, or do we wait for five more to run out?

The numbers have gone up in all countries, so I don’t know what we would be waiting for.
In my view, I don't think this is an easy decision. It's easy for us throwing out ideas where consequences to real people are non-existent. If I were making this decision, I'd need more than "this could happen, but on one knows" before taking some of the more extreme measures. Additionally, since the past 10 years of pathogens aren't relevant, can we have a case on why the 1918 should apply here? If we have a high degree of confidence this will be similar to 1918, let's by all means use all our powers to completely shut down the country until it's stamped out. Even then, do we allow foreign travel to introduce this again or another one?

Originally Posted by notquiteaff
And it probably does make sense to do it regionally. It is a big country, not all schools nationwide are equally at risk.
Sure, let's start for WA and CA, in particular that cruise ship on my home shores. Can Gov Newsom send them back? To another State? Not allow anyone to leave until there's 14 day days of infection free passengers? I'm all for surgically targeting high risk areas and demographics.

And, while we're stamping this out, what's to stop anyone from abroad slipping through and starting the infestation all over again? Seems kind of inefficient making all these sacrifices here only to risk another potential...er...high frequency infection from an unwitting traveler. Or, are we satisfied that our testing measures at our borders are effective enough?
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