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in reply to @Scrabble

One thing that is ignored in this debate is that, for closing the borders to work, you need to have lower rates of community transmission than the areas people are coming in from. Generally, we've failed at that too, so closing the borders will not make a huge difference overall while you have widespread community transmission. It would prevent importing mutations though.

Good point.

Also worth noting that, while we are not part of the mainland, we do share an open border with the EU via the NI/RoI.

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jellybaby in reply to @

I can imagine a situation where if the UK were to go for NZ style restricted borders/quarantine then Ireland might decide to join in.

Or we could just have a border down the Irish Sea and pretend there isn't one.

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