If no one traveled, the coronavirus would have a hard time spreading from one place to another. It does not seem wrong to me to consider travel restrictions. Some of our industries, such as tourism, might need to weather the loss of revenue. But, perhaps the restrictions would need to be in place only for a couple months. Perhaps the coronavirus would go into a summer lull and tourism and travel could resume at least until next winter. If everyone did their vacationing, all the same, just putting it off, perhaps not much would be lost, financially.
If coronavirus cannot spread unless people take it with them from one state to another, then it does seem we should consider nationwide travel restrictions. Weigh the best ways for them to not impact your economy, and find ways so they do not affect your economy, but have definite restrictions, the same.
If we would have restrictions on people coming from China or Europe because they might bring the virus, does it not make just as much sense to have restrictions on bringing them from one state to another? If one person has the coronavirus in Italy and another in New York, they are equally capable of spreading the virus to Denver if they head for Denver.
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