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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