5 ms·
The Chinese dictatorship initially protested against countries closing their borders, calling it racist.
by himinlomax 5y ago
The Chinese dictatorship initially protested against countries closing their borders, calling it racist.
- est 5y agobecause closing one country's border doesn't work. Strict screening travellers do. While there were indeed recorded imported Chinese cases in west coast, US's epidemic mostly started off the east coast.
- xdennis 5y ago> While there were indeed recorded imported Chinese cases in west coast, US's epidemic mostly started off the east coast. This seems like a distinction without a difference since both coasts got the virus ultimately from the same country.
- est 5y agoNo it wasn't. The Wuhan strain pretty much died in last April.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoYou have to do both, and this is clear in hindsight because of the challenges involved in setting up effective screening. Eg, close border until effective screening is in place
- taneq 5y agoYeah nah it works.
- himinlomax 5y ago> because closing one country's border doesn't work Worked very well for Taiwan, Australia.
- est 5y ago> Worked very well for Taiwan https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57153195 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57153195
- himinlomax 5y agoThey were mostly unaffected for a whole year, things got bad only recently.