Other countries like Taiwan, Japan and South Korea did it extremely well including temperature testing all arrivals, quarantine that was enforced (not sure how they did that) and contract tracing prior to the borders being closed.
Ironically, South Korea protested to Japan about such restrictions.
Simply, the United States could have shut the borders to Europe just as they did with China instead of leaving it wide open (no temperature checks, no quarantine, no contact tracing) for arrivals from Europe while China airports were closed.
My point, they shut the airports to China...they didn't need to wait almost a month before they shut the border to Europe and then spend the first several months of the Pandemic blaming China while United States didn't have the patriotic guts to mandate face mask wear...still doesn't under the lame duck President...
At the minimum he could have "encourage" wearing a face mask.
Thus, I never said the only thing they needed to do was close the borders to Europe. They should have shut it down at the exact same time they shut it down for China along with quarantining all arrivals that had beat (gotten in) prior to the shutdown and contact tracing them.
Other countries did exactly that but the United States couldn't do it.
P.S. Don't make excuses for the behavior of U.S. President with his rhetoric since Day 1 of the Pandemic...a lot of stuff could have been done. Heck, he could have at least trying instead of throwing out the Pandemic plan from the prior administration instead of calling it a "hoax by the democrats".
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