Elimination behind sealed borders is a real possibility. *If* that is achieved, then many would be happy to wait out the pandemic behind sealed borders. You can postpone it forever if you don’t let it in. The virus can only come in, if you let it in.
Do you really believe that?
One way or the other, sooner or later, you're going to have to interact with the rest of the world.
It is your economy that will be destroyed behind sealed borders.
Waiting it out is total bullshit.
The Mayans were waiting out on European pandemics for centuries, until Christopher decided to visit.
Too bad there was no BG then, uh?
Yeah I don’t know about that.
We grow about three times more food than required to support our population.
We load wheat, coal and iron ore into bulk carriers using conveyors. We offload refined fuel through pipes.
We can put foreign aircrew into supervised hotel quarantine for air cargo (spares and new iPhones). If it’s really important for other people to visit, they can sit in 14 day quarantine as well.
We have one of the worlds leading vaccine companies (CSL).
Not a lot of physical contact required with the outside world. Just in my house I could go off grid for six months right now and not even blink. Lots of solar power, thousands of liters of tank water and plenty of dried goods.
Hey, I know what you are talking about, I live on a self sufficient island as well.
Who said anything about six months? Do you think you can sustain closed borders for - let's say - a few years?