As soon as this virus broke out in China, I immediately remembered comments on HN from ~6 months re: open borders and mass population migration. I argued that r

As soon as this virus broke out in China, I immediately remembered comments on HN from ~6 months re: open borders and mass population migration. I argued that robust border controls would be useful for preventing disease transmission and was criticized as connecting totally undocumented migrants to disease was "vile rhetoric". After all, "no one was suggesting restricting tourism to prevent disease." Now here we are with a no-shit virus outbreak and neither the Canadians nor the Mexicans are interested in having Americans freely flowing across their border.[1] I'd want to laugh at how the real world tends to shred the fantastical political/social positions of so many people....if it weren't all so tragic. :( [1]https://news.trust.org/item/20200313151928-n3bce https://news.trust.org/item/20200313151928-n3bce