Originally Posted by
Visconti
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.
no disagreement there.
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?
It seems stupid/short sighted to keep the ship at sea. Whether there are infected people aboard or not, eventually the ship will be docked. And CA would seem the best equipped state for that. What is to be gained by making access to the ship difficult for health vs. docking the ship (and keeping the pax onboard until the 21 cases have been tested)? Then, if there are positive results, get everybody off the ship and quarantine them either at home (if in driving distance) or in motels.
re “anyone from abroad” - I think we are beyond the point where we can stop every single infected person from spreading it further. I suspect the risk from international travel might get reduced “magically” as more and more routes get shut down due to lack of travelers.
Testing measures at the border? Which ones? Temperature checks are relatively cheap and easy and may catch some cases, but they are obviously not going to catch every case. And why stop at international travel - is Florida at greater risk from travelers from EU or from WA state?