Only a president obsessed with foreign threats to the point of xenophobia, fixated on borders and travel restrictions as policy tools, and totally unconcerned about elite opinion could have taken those steps. If only we'd had that kind of president.
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On the one hand this is unfair to Trump: I was extremely concerned about the virus and I wasn't calling for those steps. On the other hand the case for Trump was always that he was tougher/bolder/more aggressively America-First than nervous cocktail-party conservatives like me.
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But anyway this is also more evidence that wherever you want to locate Trump's crucial failure re: the pandemic, in most counterfactuals with more normal presidents the initial spread still gets out of hand.
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a virus not controllable
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Early wider scale testing would have also provided indications of the scale of these early outbreaks pushing more significant action earlier, especially large gathering bans.
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No, no they are not.
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+ Quarantine of all arrivals if no tests available.
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... and a shutdown of travel to other countries or continents that didn’t implement their own travel bans. Autarky!
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