Not so. Pandemics travelled around the world before globalization. The black death, smallpox in the americas, syphllis.
This just increases the speed.
Under a less intertwined system, this likely would have spread heavily within each area, and that area would have little info form outside on what to do. Every place a potential Wuhan.
i hope many travel restrictions become permanent. ban cruises, make tourism difficult and expensive, cut off travel totally between the hemispheres. nature is being completely destroyed by human activity, this is an opportunity to reverse it.
Banning travel between large areas is ridiculous and wouldn't happen. Especially when a policy of quarantine during outbreaks would be equally effective with a vastly smaller cost.
PS: China’s case fatality rate broke 4%, though they likely undercounted cases by ~50% if not more.
I might have been unclear, but I was suggesting quarantine for everyone coming in, as an alternative to banning travel forever.
Quarantine set up once you already have an outbreak is uh, a different matter.
Saying they waited to long is true, but simply means it fails due to politics.
Edit: NM, misunderstood what you where referring to.
A total travel ban would also fail due to politics, so that's not a really helpful criteria.
Also, there's a lot more to environmental destruction than excess carbon.