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You can return to Europe where your ancestors are presumably from and return America back to the Native Americans. Stopping millions of people from travelling is about as ludicrous as that.

Working on increasing vaccination rates is certainly a lot more reasonable.

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When did I say I want to stop millions of people from "traveling"? First off, you can't have a country without borders. Secondly, you can have migration but in a modern world you can't just let people flow through. That's why we had Ellis Island, people could be vetted for things such as deadly diseases and possibly be vaccinated before being let into the country.

We have immunization requirements for foreign countries.

I'd be more worried about states like Missouri and Indiana with nearly a sixth of the population who are not vaccinated against measles. Mexico, as a counter example, has a nearly 99% vaccination rate for measles.

So please stop with this nationalistic nonsense.

And how exactly do you enforce those requirements if you allow people to just walk over the border at will?

Vaccination doesn't solve the problem of infected people bringing in measles from outside the country.

So you incentivize legal entry through points of entry where people can be screened.

If more are vaccinated then fewer will get and spread the disease.

Sure it does. If you're vaccinated, it's not a problem.

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