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Not the GP, but I believe they mean that it keeps outsiders out rather than keeping insiders in.

• jrochkind1 5y ago
  I see. It's currently pretty darn hard for most of the world to get into the US, is the US also a "reverse open-air prison", which alarms the poster? Really, it's been almost impossible for the majority of the population of the planet to get into the USA before the pandemic. Most of the world would be thrilled if they could come if they quarantine for two weeks.
• paganel 5y ago
  That, and the the fear (for lack of a better word) of not going out of the country because getting back in would be impossible. As far as I understand that was the feeling of many of the expats living in Singapore, had they decided to get out of the city they couldn't have come back (and hence they would have lost their lucrative job, most probably).