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The alternative was to lock down properly for a few weeks early on and prevent it from becoming endemic, but that cat is out of the solar system at this point.
by deegles 5y ago
The alternative was to lock down properly for a few weeks early on and prevent it from becoming endemic, but that cat is out of the solar system at this point.
- tartoran 5y agoIts too late for that and as it turns out it’s very hard to accomplsh. If a small group doesn’t comply they can re-spread it when the lockdown is over or eases
- rhino369 5y agoYou'd also have to make sure no new cases were imported (which means closed borders--i.e. troops on the ground not just canceling flights), AND you'd have to eliminate every internal case. It took Melbourne like 3 months to eliminate all cases. Far more than a "few weeks." It would take the sort of effort (for the US or EU) only possible with total hindsight. But if Trump tried to seal our borders with force in Jan 2020, there is no way Democrats would have accepted it. They'd call it rationalization for an attack on immigration.
- TMWNN 5y ago>It would take the sort of effort (for the US or EU) only possible with total hindsight. But if Trump tried to seal our borders with force in Jan 2020, there is no way Democrats would have accepted it. They'd call it rationalization for an attack on immigration. Much worse than that. Remember, Trump's (first) impeachment by the House had occurred in December 2019. He was not acquitted in the Senate until early February. Patient Zero for the US is believed to have entered on January 15. Had Trump on January 14 announced a total and complete shutdown of the US border, Democrats and 95% of mass media would immediately have denounced it as Trump preparing a coup to seize total power, using the ridiculous pretext of a disease that had had zero impact on the US (and was racist to ascribe in any way to China).