[balch3]

it might work for a short time with only two flights a week, but eventually it will get through. There’s no hiding from this unless you’re in antarctica.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I challenge that assumption.

And my textbook of proof is how Japan handled SARS (also how South Korea handled was also excellent), the very low SARS diffusion rate, back in the early 2000s.

Japan was able to keep it at an extremely low level and very controlled. Japanese people to begin with are incredibly sanitary about washing hands, etc. as well; nobody needs to educate them constantly such as with the "lavamos sus manos" stickers one sees in filthy bathrooms of Mexican restaurants in the USA for the illegal alien employees. This global thing will scare the daylights out of the Japanese and they will step up to the plate. I have no reason to believe less of them.

Table 1 SARS Probable Cases by Country (June 12, 2003) Country Cumulative Cases Deaths Current Cases Australia 5 0 0 Canada 238 32 65 China 5,328 343 528 Hong Kong 1,755 291 87 Japan 0 0 0 South Korea 3 0 0 Taiwan 688 81 260 Mongolia 9 0 0 Philippines 14 2 12 Singapore 206 31 5 Thailand 9 2 1 United States 70 0 34 Vietnam 63 5 0 Other 57 3 4 World Total 8,445 790 996 Source: World Health Organization.

[mkjessup]

it might work for a short time with only two flights a week, but eventually it will get through. There’s no hiding from this unless you’re in antarctica.

Well ask yourself this: would you prefer to be in a room with 1 infected person, or perhaps a dozen?

The Japanese have clearly opted for the former.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Carriers can stay asymptomatic for what, a week or more?

[luckystarmom]

but it can delay it while they make a vaccine, and it may slow it down making it not so overwhelming.