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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat<br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…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.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Stathis Papaioannou<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>