[ExI] the science might be wrong

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 at 06:13, spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> >…OK, not certain, but very likely. Previous SARS outbreaks have been
> contained and eliminated because they were localised and it was possible to
> do this. It’s not possible to do it with the current pandemic given that
> the virus has spread throughout the world. In Australia it had effectively
> been eliminated (no infections and no active cases for months) but has
> taken off again via cases from travellers in quarantine.
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> Stathis Papaioannou
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> Ja, international travel spreads the virus and international travel cannot
> be stopped.  No matter what any government does, international travel
> cannot be completely stopped because there is illegal border crossing.  In
> the case of both the USA and Belgium, both have a lot of international
> travelers and neither can stop that.
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> At the time covid became well-known, there were tourists overseas, some of
> whom were already infected.  There is no way to stop them from coming
> home.  If quarantines are enforced, then the people caring for those
> travelers become infected and the virus gets loose anyway.  Borders and
> border enforcement can’t stop the virus, which is why it didn’t anywhere.
> But a vaccine can, which is why I predict it will stop it everywhere.
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> This is why we don’t give governments unlimited power in response to a
> virus, but we give medical science all the resources they can use.
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Epidemiology is part of medical science, the methods to contain epidemics
are not invented by politicians.

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Stathis Papaioannou
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