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Agree 100% -- that whole paragraph has some flimsy logic. The only bit of evidence they provide for travel bans not working is: > For example, we had a travel
by flunhat 5y ago
Agree 100% -- that whole paragraph has some flimsy logic. The only bit of evidence they provide for travel bans not working is:
> For example, we had a travel ban with China in March 2020, only to be infiltrated with a European strain.
Isn't this a good sign that the travel ban actually worked -- i.e. created enough of a delay in the spread of covid to result in a meaningfully different pandemic than we would have otherwise experienced?
- AlexCoventry 5y agoFor a variant with this level of transmissibility, doesn't it seem likely that it's already present in every nation with significant international travel?
- ehsankia 5y agoThe issue with the 2020 travel ban was indeed that it was for a single country only (later added Iran too), and AFAIK only included direct flights, which kinda defeats the point. You have to go all in or nothing.
- makomk 5y agoItaly only banned direct flights from China which was indeed worse than useless, but the US travel ban was based on whether someone had been in China in I think the last 14 days and most subsequent travel restrictions have been modelled on that one.