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Restricting travel is not punishment, but it starts to look an awful lot like it if it is essentially arbitrary. How many of the places that have identified in
by maxerickson 5y ago
Restricting travel is not punishment, but it starts to look an awful lot like it if it is essentially arbitrary.
How many of the places that have identified incoming travelers with the new variant have enough genetic surveillance of infections to rule out the presence of the variant in their general population?
- jollybean 5y agoNZ AZ and Taiwan have kept the virus out very well with border controls. Everyone realizes that there's no way to keep it out without ultra-strict controls with most nations do not have, but, they can delay the virus - hopefully until after the holidays, they can smooth out how quickly it erupts, and they can buy time to further understand it's impact.
- maxerickson 5y agoRight, but quarantine for everybody is at least a different kind of arbitrary. I wouldn't say it is arbitrary at all given how infection works, but the point can likely be argued. Imposing a travel ban on a country that does a lot of surveillance and then not on countries that do less surveillance is the worst kind of arbitrary.