Rory Sutherland Rory Sutherland

Will quarantine for travellers become normal again?

issue 21 March 2020

It wasn’t a coincidence that the US government chose Ellis Island as an immigration station. The crucial word is ‘island’.

Had the RMS Titanic missed that fateful iceberg in 1912, she would eventually have taken up station at a quarantine area at the entrance to the Lower Bay of New York Harbor, to await medical inspectors who would board the ship from a cutter.

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