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Originally Posted by belsarius
“Anytime you are dealing with an outbreak, if it appears like you overreacted, then you probably did the right thing,” Krutika Kuppalli, a fellow in the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity program
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I think that's the problem with the "hands off" types. During a pandemic, you can't 'scale up' accordingly. the virus doesn't wait for people to be ready. You're better off 'scaling down' over time and as the patterns play out.
I think we saw the 'scale up' approach work poorly at the beginning of COVID, with planes carrying infected Canadians coming back before rules tightened. I am hoping with better tech, airports, travel hubs and authorities can stop people at point of departure before even getting to point of entry. But of course, that's just one of many mechanisms that would be needed for a future pandemic.