It’s already hard to remember that in late February the international health complex and many experts were pooh poohing aggressive measures too. And many governments including Canada’s, and US science bureaucrats.

Now all that is getting blamed on Orange Man.

Save of course that for 4-5 more weeks those same authorities were still reluctant to impose anything resembling tried and true movement restrictions of the kind that are almost the only public defence against a disease with no treatment or vaccine yet.

Leaving aside the idea that maybe the rich countries, at least, shouldn’t rely wholly on international trade for vital meds, we all have plenty of experience with border controls on people, on goods, and including selective entry and medical screening. We seem to have forgotten all that.

Lest anyone have hurt feelings because of the racism, though, since no one ever imposed border controls without them being race-targeted.