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No. The virus doesn’t travel over land, it travels via human hosts. Any country could eliminate it, island or not, by closing its borders to international pass
by throwaheyy 6y ago
No. The virus doesn’t travel over land, it travels via human hosts.
Any country could eliminate it, island or not, by closing its borders to international passenger travel.
- kennywinker 6y agoWhile in theory true, in practice borders are not 100% effective. Locking the doors encourages people to climb through the windows, even islands can be entered by boat. Opening the borders with a strict two week quarantine enforcement seems like the only sane way to proceed (as NZ has done)
- higeorge13 6y agoAnd then some countries will die because they are majorly dependent to international travel and tourism. Not every country in the world is self-sustainable. Closed borders are an easy strategy, but cannot be applied everywhere in the world. Take a look in EU which is built under the open-borders strategy, take a look at any country which economies depend heavily on tourism, and so on. I wish every country was like NZ where we could apply such measures, but we aren't. In example, my country Greece with closed border would face a more extreme economic crisis than 10 years ago.
- throwaheyy 6y agoInternational trade does not require free and open international passenger travel.
- higeorge13 6y agoI am not talking about trade, but passenger travel. Greece relies heavily on tourism. Closed borders or even 14 days of isolations will kill the tourism industry, all related economic sectors and the whole country will be buried in unemployment. What's a viable strategy for such countries?
- lostlogin 6y agoYou have described New Zealand’s problem. Tourism was the biggest industry, it hurt and it’s going keep hurting for a long time.
- EdwardDiego 6y agoTourism is (was?) our second largest export earner. We've just had to choose which economic hit we take.