What can be learned from the coronavirus pandemic and immigration

Many countries, especially in Europe, are at this moment experiencing what happens when suddenly there are thousands, even tens of thousands of sick people in need of medical attention, and from the looks of it, it's probably going to get much worse than this, before it gets better. The healthcare systems of these countries are struggling to keep up. There's a lack of resources and personnel, and it's only getting worse.

So yeah, let's open the borders and take millions of economic migrants all of a sudden. Surely our healthcare systems have the resources for managing all of them, when they get sick.

I'm not even talking about this coronavirus pandemic in particular. Just people getting sick for whatever reasons. Take a million immigrants all of a sudden, and a good portion of them will be, and will get, sick for various reasons. How are you going to cope with all of them?

On another tangent, many people are pointing out the irony of more and more countries tightening their border control, some even closing their borders altogether, for most people.

Ah the irony. Suddenly we get a reminder of what country borders are good for.

Too bad that neither of these lessons will be remembered when this pandemic has passed. The same pundits will just return to their old rhetoric.