People drive too much. Cut off ais travel and only a few care - who drive to Los Cruzes NM to fly. cut off roads and they will in mass break the barricades.
reply>People drive too much
replyThat doesn't seem like a good argument for instituting a quarantine by blocking air travel but not ground travel. And why block everything including police, cargo and medivac flights for a quarantine?
It is why they won't block ground travel even though they might want to.
replyThen there's no real infection risk if they'll continue to let people drive out of the area, including let people drive a 4 or 5 hours to another airport to make their trip.
replyClosing the El Paso airspace will reduce the number of people flying, but not stop it, lots of people will make the drive to Tucson or Albuquerque to catch a flight.
I could maybe see it if it was, say, LAX which is a major travel hub, but shutting down a small regional airport without also shutting down ground travel is "quarantine theater" rather than a real quarantine.
I’m sorry I have to say I have never seen Las Cruces spelled like that.
replyDisgraphia - the inability to spell (and otherwise write well). Sorry about it.
replyWell, air travel spreads things harder and faster.
replySure, but people will just drive to the next closest airport and fly. Quarantine makes no sense as an explanation without accompanying roadblocks.
reply>Sure, but people will just drive to the next closest airport and fly
replyTell me you've never been to west Texas.
The next closest airport is Juarez, it's like 6 miles away, full fledged international airport. It's a few hours walk at worst.
replyThey really prefer you have a passport now, and the vast majority of people do not. Also, I doubt this admin would mind if there was suddenly an uptick in one way travel into Mexico
reply>The next closest airport is Juarez, it's like 6 miles away
reply...In Mexico, sure. The closest major US airport to El Paso is Albuquerque or Tucson, 4 hours each.
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