https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/03/trumps-coronavirus-t...
Perhaps Brexit closing trade doors with the EU could be resulting in a stronger relationship between the US & UK?
Though AFAIK it's kinda up in the air if Biden would go for the same thing.
The UK has an upcoming COVID vaccine (the Astra-Zeneca/Oxford one) that may prove useful in the near future. Cut off the UK from the rest of the world and the rest of the world can't benefit from it.
Also, it's almost certain that the UK strain is in the US already, and the US is shit at dealing with pandemics once they're on our soil. Border closures only work if your test/trace/isolate institutions and compliance with social distancing is good enough to eradicate the virus from within your borders; they prevent reinfection in that case. The US has shown we're completely incapable of that, so it really doesn't matter.
https://news.sky.com/story/emergency-talks-to-prevent-christ...
Even if the scale or details of circumstance are different—such as Clinton’s pardoning of his brother in minimizing Trump’s choices.
Another reason is exceptions cause outrage. And there may be many instances of diplomatic or other government travel that needs to happen or happen in the slipstream of limited public travel.
Most moral systems of my acquantance are based on a hierachy of values that puts saving human lives over just about anything.
False. While not explicitly stated there is a threshold usually measurable in money spent after which saving life is considered of being "not worth it". Ford Pinto case that went through the courts I think can serve as a very good particular example where cost analysis made it legal to allow otherwise preventable deaths.
The vast majority of deaths are people over age 55: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Ag...
Possibly better known as "first they came for", apparently officially titled "First they came..."
