Re:New Zealand PM: No open borders for 'a long time'
by augustt on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @04:22PM
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Those examples are either not very contagious or not contagious at all.
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Re:New Zealand PM: No open borders for 'a long time'
by makomk on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @04:52PM
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Yes. Ebola, for example, requires direct contact with the body fluids of an infected person. It also kills a high double-digit percentage of everyone who gets it. This makes eradicating it entirely both more feasible and much more important than a respiratory disease that can be caught just by being in the same room as someone with no symptoms, and that causes mild or even no symptoms in most people who get it. Covid-19 just doesn't have characteristics that make eliminating it entirely look like a feasible option.
Re:New Zealand PM: No open borders for 'a long time'
by AnotherGoodName on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @04:50PM
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And yet given the continuing 0 new cases of COVID in New Zealand it is manageable. The only risk is international visitors at this point which the article discusses in terms of both issues and solutions to an ongoing international travel ban.