It is not people arriving from abroad that are fueling the spread of
this disease out of control. It is the overall behavior of the
population.
Yeah, but that's only because there are hardly any people coming from abroad since the borders were closed compared to normal pre-COVID travel levels. If you compare the tiny international travel numbers to the huge community spread numbers, of course the former is not a big factor. As soon as you open up flights and more people travel here, then you have more potential of seeding the virus, especially new strains. New York City was initially seeded from European travelers because, by that time (February or so), the virus had already spread from China to Europe (the scientists looked at the genetic makeup of the virus in NYC and determined its origins as European). I think the new policy is to not add to the already out-of-control community spread, and to make things worse. Australia has been so strict on this reseeding potential that their own nationals have trouble coming home from abroad and have been virtually stranded there until they allow them to trickle back in (they phase in the number that can come in at once to match available space in their quarantine facilities).
Anyone thinking of travel will now have to find testing locations in
where ever they are going.
Or how about giving travel a rest for a while, since we have over 4k deaths a day now (!) and severe issues in some hotspots like Southern California and others.
