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It's a bit difficult to take arguments seriously, when there's a lot of expressed motive to make a certain side look good or bad. Travel restrictions work grea
by jmchuster 6y ago
It's a bit difficult to take arguments seriously, when there's a lot of expressed motive to make a certain side look good or bad.
Travel restrictions work great. Test and quarantine everyone who comes in to the country. But you won't have perfect containment, and maybe you choose to make a tradeoff and say you just need the test, which has X% accuracy. So then there must be follow-up behavior, and that's where contact tracing, quarantines, and masks come in. If you reach the point where you can't get a handle with such techniques, then you lockdown and test until they're sustainable.
There are countries who have done much better, and other countries that have done much worse with Covid. And you see that with East Asian countries who experienced Sars, and African countries who experienced Ebola. So, it might behoove the leaders of countries with much more dead to take a look at what others might be doing different.
- sampo 6y ago> But you won't have perfect containment As far as we know, Taiwan has had 0 cases since April. All cases in Taiwan are cases that are found in border quarantines. I'd call that a perfect containment.
- graeme 6y agoInterestingly they just had their first in a long while: https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/22/asia/taiwan-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/22/asia/taiwan-coronavirus-intl-... They have had basically perfect containment, but even then you need some backup systems.