{"id":26065,"date":"2020-03-09T13:10:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-09T17:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=26065"},"modified":"2020-03-07T21:38:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T03:38:49","slug":"china-will-close-its-borders-to-americans-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/09\/china-will-close-its-borders-to-americans-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"China will close its borders to Americans soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Right now we&#8217;ve tried to close our border with China. The US State Department says don\u2019t go there. Airline flights have been cut back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet what if the widely mocked Chinese government turns out to have been the only example of taking effective measures to stop the virus from spreading? China will soon be free of coronavirus while a pandemic rages in most of the world&#8217;s countries (thinly populated Finland escaped the 1348 Black Death, but <a href=\"https:\/\/yle.fi\/uutiset\/osasto\/news\/five_new_coronavirus_cases_confirmed_in_finland\/11242325\">they&#8217;ve already suffered from COVID-19)<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Japanese friend based in Shanghai told me that the Chinese are beginning to establish quarantines for visitors arriving from South Korea and Japan (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/news\/2020\/03\/03\/asia-pacific\/beijing-quarantine-travelers-japan-south-korea-iran-italy-amid-coronavirus-outbreak\/#.XmPiI6hKguU\">confirmed via Reuters<\/a>). When do they say that Americans aren&#8217;t welcome or have to be in a dog kennel for two weeks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now we&#8217;ve tried to close our border with China. The US State Department says don\u2019t go there. Airline flights have been cut back. 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