cyberdad wrote:
magz wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
My argument is you need a balanced approach that prevents needless jobs losses and delays in our children's education (so its not just financial)
So far the biggest transmission vectors have been cruise ships, aeroplanes and public transport.....governments could have been more creative in stopping these vectors.
In the US Trump was more worried about building a wall to stop Mexicans yet he dawdled aimlessly for months when he should have put a wall against Chinese entering the US.
Because only the Chinese carried the virus to US, of course not white, wealthy New Yorkers coming back from a trip to Italy. [/sarcasm]
You can't really prevent American citizens from returning home but if Trump forced travellers to do mandatory testing then enforced self-isolation on arrival from January then that would have plugged that hole.
Action in January to block American borders would mean 100,000 Americans would still be alive.
That's closer to what I think - though countries that issued such regulations - including mine - still ultimately got their own local outbreaks. Borders are not that tight and covid seems very readily transfered.
There were more bad decisions that cost lives.
But acting early seems crucial, indeed.
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