Why Travel Bans Don’t Work During An Outbreak Like Coronavirus

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Travel bans won't keep the coronavirus out of any country and will decimate the economy. We should rely on science, not fear.

, Senior Scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Preparedness stressed that just because there is a travel ban, “no one should think that there won’t be more cases.” It“Doing things out of an ‘abundance of caution’ isn’t a good idea…The risks, costs of the travel ban and some of the severe quarantines that we are seeing around the world, those have real consequences.”Some of the immediate consequences are economic and likely to be devastating to small businesses.

The logistics of a quarantine are daunting, too—you need to consider providing food, housing, meeting other special needs to those being restricted, and consider their medical and religious needs, she added. Implementing a quarantine “is really difficult, especially on a large scale.”

 

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Someone is owned by china?

If you impose a travel ban people will still travel....difficult part you will not know about it coz they use different entry points and won't be able to minotor diseases.

Irrational article..

Because most of people who have money. e.g. America didn't made money respecting anyone! Only trouble is that other have to pay for it. Let's hope at least this time the right people will pay for their actions!

People at Forbes all worried that the China travel ban will force businesses to stop profiting off low labor costs. What a tragedy y’all are gonna have to supply & produce locally for the next few months at least.. God forbid you take part in your own country’s economic growth !

So if a virus is in Europe and we ban all flight from Europe to the US guess what travel bans work

are you for real?

I don't want to make a stupid joke, but I think Coronavirus destroys stupid people...

I notice that you quoted the WHO, aka CHO, where C stands for China. It is not a good practice.

OMG. Travel bans do work. Why let hundreds of exposed people into a country of unexposed people! What idiocy!

Stop it. They work.

BEIJING, CHINA —NOT ONE OF THE 50 BEST PLACES TO TRAVEL IN 2020 (DISCOVERDIOR) -

Any type of restriction is better than no restriction at all.

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