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Everyone says this because it makes sense at first glance, but does it really? Did the US get most of its infections from people driving over from Canada and
by lifeformed 5y ago
Everyone says this because it makes sense at first glance, but does it really? Did the US get most of its infections from people driving over from Canada and Mexico? A virus from China or South Africa spreads by planes, not cars.
- coryrc 5y agoHow about the border between Washington State (65% fully vaccinated) and Idaho (45% fully vaccinated). Lots of covidiots using eastern Washington hospital ICU capacity.
- throwaway894345 5y agoFair enough, I should have said “be a small island”. Obviously everything changes when you’re dealing with a population two orders of magnitude that of New Zealand: it’s harder to secure ports, harder to control contagion internally, etc. Moreover, the US never even attempted to harden its ports until the virus was already spreading out of control. That said, the US has a lot of people crossing its land borders—even if it completely hardened its ports, outlawed border crossings, and was much better at reducing internal contagion, it would still have to deal with thousands of people who cross illegally and who aren’t going to quarantine for two weeks or abide by any kind of contact tracing programs.