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EternalPinkMist OP t1_j2fn90a wrote

Reply to comment by Stilgar314 in Canada will require COVID-19 testing for flights from China as virus surges | Globalnews.ca by EternalPinkMist

So there's a flood in your village, water is everywhere, and you have a flood gate that someone forgot to close. All of a sudden the flood starts to surge, do you not close the gates just because it was initially forgotten?

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green_flash t1_j2fnx91 wrote

Do you close all the gates or only one gate?

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EternalPinkMist OP t1_j2fojdp wrote

If the flood is only coming from one area why close the flood gate on the other side?

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Stilgar314 t1_j2fvgf5 wrote

Only thing this is not water, is a virus, and your metaphor doesn't accurately describe the situation. Once the virus is endemic, your "gates" are irrelevant, the only thing that can make any real difference is people's ability to swim.

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sync-centre t1_j2fofli wrote

So the Chinese person will infect someone in another country and then they will travel here. Unless the world collectively bans all travel from China this will do nothing.

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EternalPinkMist OP t1_j2foubr wrote

The spread of infection will happen regardless, there is no point in banning travel from all locations until that area is also extremely infected. Its not about stopping all infections, it's about stopping as many as possible.

Would Canada gain more infections directly from China, a country that gives us a huge percentage of tourists, exchange students, etc, or would it gain more infections from Chinese who visit another nation where its citizens rarely travel to Canada?

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sync-centre t1_j2fp3dq wrote

Canada probably gets more travelers from the US and covid is still spreading there. They are not stopping travelers from the US crossing the border.

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EternalPinkMist OP t1_j2fpk6z wrote

Covid is still spreading within Canada as well.

The difference between the US and China is Chinese spread is approx 66% of canadas population a day, as compared to American which is at about 0.001% of our contried population a day

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