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I don’t really understand this argument in relation to the USA. A country like Germany, where they are in the Schengen Area, surrounded on all sides by multiple countries, with no hard border? Sure, I can see that being a factor. But the USA has only two land borders, both of them hard. If the USA had locked down properly, it would have resembled New Zealand a lot more closely than Germany.

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it's more like between the states, not between the US and other countries. One should think of the US analogous to the EU and the state analgous to the countries within the EU, with schengen. The virus need only make a beachhead early on (which it did) and then it was inside of an unsealable domain that is wide enough to basically keep things going in perpetuity.

Based on the tens of thousands if illegal aliens flooding into the US across the southern border, I'm not sure it can be considered a "hard" border.

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/southwest-land-border-enc...

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