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Originally Posted by twister244
The problem with that is.... We simply could never actually do that here in the US. In order to *force* everything to shut down, you have to give the authority to the government to enforce that.... Thanks, but no thanks.
We had a narrow window to shut down travel from the rest of the world in order to prevent the virus from entering the country, and that window occurred while China was lying about the nature of the virus, so it was almost impossible to prevent spread here. In the future, the second we even hear a rumor of a new virus in China, shut international travel down immediately and have folks quarantine (Yes, I know this mildly contradicts my initial point in this post, but it would be very limited in time to a few people traveling).
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The U.S. never really cut off travel, though. We only cut off direct flights from China, and closed the land border with Canada and Mexico. We never forced people arriving from abroad to do mandatory quarantines. We didn't even require proof of negative COVID tests to board a plane to the U.S. until January of 2021.