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Because the US has had so much success securing its southern border, and because taking the necessary actions to truly close it wouldn't be a total political sh

• maxerickson 6y ago
  If we actually did contact tracing, illegal crossings of infected people would be easy enough to deal with. Infections in the US are not being driven by sick people coming in from Mexico.
  • __blockcipher__ 6y ago
    Very fallacious reasoning here. No-one is saying that infections are driven by Mexican immigrants. Rather they’re pointing out the obvious: if you’re trying to get to zero COVID, all it takes is one person to start the chain. Thus you cannot have ANY illegal immigration. FWIW I strongly oppose the “zero COVID” goal because it’s completely unrealistic. We’ll see if the island nations can maintain it long-term but certainly in the US it’s a non-starter.
    • maxerickson 6y ago
      It's not fallacious reasoning. See the sentence in my other comment where I addressed your reply: If we actually did contact tracing, illegal crossings of infected people would be easy enough to deal with. Sure, we'd have to actually do something, but it would take less resources than we are expending on medical care, for instance. The countries with low infection levels don't need to maintain it for all that much longer, we have effective vaccines. Probably 6 months (At which point they will likely have vaccinated much of their populations).