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One lesson learnt is, shutting down the borders does not help. It can at most delay the inevitable by a few weeks. If you don't have a vaccine ready to be admin
by zapdrive 5y ago
One lesson learnt is, shutting down the borders does not help. It can at most delay the inevitable by a few weeks. If you don't have a vaccine ready to be administered to all your population in 3-4 weeks, shutting down the borders is pointless.
Another one, politicians need to stop using science for propaganda. The mistrust in scientists has cost us dearly.
- yorwba 5y ago"weeks" is off by two orders of magnitude. Two years into the pandemic, less than 1% of the population in Taiwan and New Zealand have been infected. https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&facet=none&pickerSort=asc&pickerMetric=location&hideControls=true&Interval=Cumulative&Relative+to+Population=true&Color+by+test+positivity=false&country=NZL~TWN&Metric=Confirmed+cases https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
- ryanbrunner 5y agoShutting down borders works if and only if you're successfully implementing an elimination strategy. In North America and Europe it was pretty pointless, but it was absolutely useful in New Zealand, Australia, China and Hong Kong.