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Fun fact. Immigration was kept open across Europe during the plague. Poland was an exception and kept their borders closed. They were subsequently spared the ra
by zackees 5y ago
Fun fact. Immigration was kept open across Europe during the plague. Poland was an exception and kept their borders closed. They were subsequently spared the ravaging death toll.
“One theory was that Poland’s ruler at the time, Kazimierz the Great, effectively quarantined the whole country by banning all foreigners from crossing the kingdom’s borders, thereby restricting the movement of people who were affected.”
https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/no-way-no-plague-was-poland-once-an-island-of-immunity-10943 https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/no-way-no-plague-was-po...
- jb1991 5y agoAnd they say travel bans don't work! But that is a very interesting anecdote.
- yodon 5y agoTravel has changed radically since the dark ages. The effectiveness of a travel ban during the dark ages is not a good guide for the effectiveness of one today.
- jb1991 5y agoI guess it wasn't obvious, but I was being facetious.
- masklinn 5y ago> And they say travel bans don't work! No, “they” say that performative racist restrictions don’t work against epidemics. Example of a “travel ban”: closing only direct flights, only from china, only to foreign nationals, when cases are already blowing up stateside and streaming in from other non-banned countries. Example of an actual travel ban: closing travel from anywhere, to anyone, possibly aside from to local residents and nationals following extensive supervised quarantining.
- jb1991 5y agoI agree with you completely. My remark was just tongue-in-cheek.
- refurb 5y agoPoland has a massive land border and much smaller population back then. How effective was it? I mean, plenty of people cross into the US illegally today.
- txru 5y agoI'm guessing it was quite a lot easier to guess who was an outlander if they were travelling through the country. Far fewer people travelled great distances, travel required burdensome preparations, and if you wanted to bring any kind of business with you, you had to travel in some way that was manifestly obvious what you were doing.