Very true. It's a tough line to walk to discuss *current* risk to those in the US, *potential* future risk that is largely unknown, and current & future risks to those in other areas that have greater vulnerability--as well as those already seriously affected in China. /1https://twitter.com/linamichi/status/1226090307428724738 …
I don’t think that the calls for travel limitations, legitimately, are a net negative. This is a line pushed by the WHO but I think that they cannot honestly be believed at their point, they are weeks behind the curve on this and are clearly pressured by China.
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I think too that many of those are extremely US centric. Some of us do live on islands and some of us have collective obligations to other islands with very poor health systems. Travel restrictions while we sort how to strengthen health systems doesn't seem unreasonable.
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And certainly it will be a different calculus for some areas, where it may make more sense or have more of an evidence base. What I'm speaking of are indeed what I've seen suggested in the US.
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