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>>> Stop with the globalism

> Again: nations should handle their borders.

> That means a strong border policy focused on border defense from illegal entry, and reduced, quarantined, and/or eliminated immigration in times of pandemic.

And again, that won't actually work during a pandemic. Are you going to strand your own citizens overseas at a drop of a hat? Diseases can travel in them just as well as in a foreigner. If your focus is exclusively on your own borders and territory, and you're not cooperating with other nations, your border agency is going to be flying blind in the early stages of a pandemic and will probably fail to keep the disease out.

Similarly, even if you do manage to control it internally, the kinds of barriers you'll need to maintain will have massive costs, that may actually be higher than participating in a global response to a global problem.

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It's a nice Hypothetical of a relatively tiny quantity of Edge Cases,

but it's a repetition of a False Dichotomy, as I already pointed out. You have anything original?

It doesn't mean my nation should stop protecting its borders.

If anything, it indicates my nation should put more resources into protecting our borders.

I fail to see the premise of your argument, other than "In pandemics, bad things happen".

As I said-- Restrict immigration & quarantine immigrants. Simple.

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