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Why does it have to be a border shutdown? It is politicized to the wazoo in the US already. Canada adopted a policy of mandatory 2 weeks quarantine for every i
by lhorie 6y ago
Why does it have to be a border shutdown? It is politicized to the wazoo in the US already.
Canada adopted a policy of mandatory 2 weeks quarantine for every inbound traveler, and if the numbers are any indication, it worked quite well (but then they went lax on some other aspects in H2 and now are seeing numbers go up again...)
Santa Clara, CA is about as democrat as they come and they've recently announced quarantine policies based on travel distance as well, so in my mind, it seems possible to de-politicize.
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoI don't know I just feel like there's a weird 180 backlash across the spectrum. Where Trump was continuously treated as a dictator but then his opposition is openly admiring China for their authoritarianism in combating coronavirus. Likewise his border wall efforts were always stymied cause they were "racist." That could very well be true but with such sweeping generalizations the political support for border control re: coronavirus isn't really there since everyone's staked their position based on opposing their own enemies.