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> We could have stopped it completely with total travel bans There is no such thing in the modern world. The influenza pandemics in the 19th, 20th and 21st cen
by pbourke 7y ago
> We could have stopped it completely with total travel bans
There is no such thing in the modern world. The influenza pandemics in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries couldn't be stopped, just mitigated.
Just take the US - you'd need to shut every air route, every land border and every shipping port for upwards of 18 months. Untenable.