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Alternative to the complete ban would have been forced quarantine for every person entering the country like Israel is doing.
by eveningcoffee 7y ago
Alternative to the complete ban would have been forced quarantine for every person entering the country like Israel is doing.
- simonh 7y agoThis virus is going to be around for a very, very long time. As soon as it spread through the general population in China, it was over. Take China, everyone is talking as though they solved the problem, but it’s only a matter of time before it breaks out there again. In fact it’s almost certainly already happening. Even draconian lockdowns of people entering the country can only delay the inevitable. Now delays can be valuable. The slower the spread, the lower the peak strain on health services, but it cannot be stopped. How long is Israel going to do this, a week? A month? Six months? What about next year when there’s another outbreak? Maybe we’ll have a vaccine by then, but maybe not.
- eveningcoffee 7y agoThis is all true, but for now China has developed antibody based fast test kit that can give response in 20 minutes without laboratory testing and knowing them they could produce it in huge quantities. Now they simply have to apply constant mass testing to keep the outbreak under control.