Coronavirus: Israel to bring in 14-day quarantine for all arrivals

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This is what all countries should do. Can't believe how many people still travel for non-critical reasons.

I know more than a couple of people who decided to go to Europe this week and were disappointed they couldn't see Italy. Priorities people. Regardless if it's not in the area you'll be in right now and you don't think it'll be sick, you don't know it's not floating through the airport and if you'll be carrying it home with you.

Exactly. Today in Iowa (USA) we have our first three cases, tourists returning from Egypt. Did they get it in the airport? On the tour? We'll never know.

...and today its 8.

Smart people. But that only works when the virus is not yet spreading invisibly in a community. For plenty of places that ship has sailed, to use an unfortunate metaphor. This already got so much worse than it had to due to short term thinking.

Is it though? You really don’t know Israel very well. It’s a shtetl and it’s all transactional. Not only it’s not necessary, the implications are substantial. The original plan of the ministry of health was to only impose this on high risk countries, few European and the USA. But then Pense called and pressured them to make it all countries, so the USA would not stick out and look bad.

Source (in Hebrew): https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/health/LIVE-1.8638214#7010128...

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