Originally Posted by
threep
To restrict international travel is not necessarily the wrong thing to do. Whether this is right measure at the right time is a question for the experts. To blame the virus on the EU, and then omit the UK from the travel restrictions when we are probably no more than 3 or 4 days behind France, Germany, Spain in terms of this outbreak is illogical and sounds very Trump. There must always be a scapegoat and today its the EU. I fear for the US in this pandemic, without a consistent, top-down, expert & evidence-led set of public health decisions, the US will have the greatest death rate in the developed world.
If you look at the fatalities, the UK is right with the pack. Confirmed infections don't give you the right idea since different countries have had vastly different testing capability and willingness to test everyone around known infected people.
https://www.usnews.com/news/health-n...n-virus-deaths