It was public health orthodoxy that travel restrictions are some combination of ineffective and counter productive. Which there are infection scenarios where t

It was public health orthodoxy that travel restrictions are some combination of ineffective and counter productive. Which there are infection scenarios where that might be true. This obviously wasn't one of them. A standard line is that we couldn't restrict travel in the US because we aren't an island. But we didn't do much of anything, our travel was much more extensive than necessary.