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This is not necessarily true. During the Spanish conquest of South America many indigenous died. It shows diseases travel equally well by boat. Maybe flight acc
by oxfordmale 4y ago
This is not necessarily true. During the Spanish conquest of South America many indigenous died. It shows diseases travel equally well by boat. Maybe flight accelerates transmission, however, grounding all airplanes is not going to stop it.
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- User23 4y agoThis is why ships had quarantine flags. It wasn’t a perfect system, but that combined with ocean crossing being longer than the incubation period of many diseases meant they were a far less efficient disease vector. The same result could be achieved with an enforced (men with guns, not polite suggestion) 14 day quarantine of all air travelers, flight time included. But the jet set have too much political power and prefer to spread disease.
- tinus_hn 4y agoYeah, ask China how well this ‘15 days to stop the spread’ tactic is working out.
- User23 4y agoImagine not being able to understand the difference between quarantining a vessel and locking down an entire city. Hint: one significant difference is that in the latter case it’s already too late.
- tinus_hn 4y agoImagine fantasizing you can actually lock the borders to any country that is not a continent of its own. All these obvious plans have been tried, and failed. All that sciency talk sounds really smart, but doesn’t hold up in the real world.
- refurb 4y agoYup, air travel may accelerate disease transmission across the global, but it doesn't create something that wouldn't happen otherwise.