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You may recall that we shut down the entire global economy because of this virus. So yeah, it's true, we can justify a whole hell of a lot in service of keeping the transmission rate low.

And there's nothing theoretical about this. Regularly stopping infected individuals form boarding planes will reduce the transmission rate, not in theory, but in fact.




Yep, we’ve done all manner of unproven, dubiously effective measures at incredible cost, because “we have to do something!”

That is not itself a justification for doing more of them.




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