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That is ridiculous and impossible. Don't kid yourself thinking that it will go away. It's not going to happen.

Other countries have achieved it. Why can’t the US do it?

Which ones, other than SK the other good example (japan, china, singapore) all turned out to not be testing.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/27/asia/new-zealand-elimination-...

Vietnam. Contacts put in hard quarantine (hotel/camp with guards), _contacts of contacts_ put in home quarantine.

Weird. I've never went to a camp or hotel with gaurds before.

Iceland and Taiwan as well.

Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan.

Well, not completely eliminated, but it will be eliminated soon enough based on current trends.

Interestingly, all island nations.

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