There have been 7M-13M excess deaths worldwide during the pandemic

Re:There have been 7M-13M excess deaths worldwide during the... by vosper on Sunday May 16, 2021 @07:51PM (#27178434)

> And the U.S. couldn't close its land borders even if it wanted to

Maybe not perfectly, but surely the vast majority of traffic across land borders is at managed border crossings. The US could shut those down, put the army on any unmanaged roads/routes (don’t know if this is a thing) and stop 95% or more of land border traffic?

Maybe it wouldn’t have made a difference to Covid - I don’t know about that, but I do question the impossibility claim.

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Re:There have been 7M-13M excess deaths worldwide during the... by MaulingMonkey on Sunday May 16, 2021 @08:20PM (#27178656)

The border is already closed (at least around here) to "non-essential travel". So, no crossing the border for vacationing. But "full" closure would mean blocking "essential" trade (food, oil/fuel, ...), and blocking "essential" workers that commute across the border. It could technically be done, but it'd be incredibly disruptive.

Even with full legal closure, the borders are porous enough for a border wall to have been a talking point in some previous election debates. Build a mile-tall wall out of mithril, and you'd still be left with a ton of unsecured coastline, connected by some rather convenient oceans...

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