Mandatory Health Checks At International Airports

[North Jerlandia]

Health | International Aid

THE WORLD ASSEMBLY,

ACKNOWLEDGING the high chance of transmitted diseases:

NOTING that developing nations are more likely to have more diseases that could be brought to other nations;

AWARE that higher disease transmission rates in any nation place the international community at risk;

BELIEVING that every nation's government is uniquely equipped to address this problem;

HEREBY

1. DEFINES, for the purposes of this resolution,
a. "developing nations" as those nations which have a higher likelihood of having transmittable diseases that could be spread to other nations;
b. "high levels of disease transmission" as levels of disease transmission that threaten to put a nation or the international community at risk through an outbreak or epidemic.

2. REQUIRES that all WA members install temperature scanners at International airports for passengers entering or leaving a nation to try and detect individuals with abnormal temperatures and give them a health check before they are allowed to fly.

Any suggestions? It's my first time doing something like this. *Edited so contents reflect title*

[Aeisonia]

Hmm. Maybe change “poorer” to developing, for the sake of politeness.

[North Jerlandia]

Hmm. Maybe change “poorer” to developing, for the sake of politeness.

Yeah, you're right

[Aeisonia]

And remove the last clause too, as it’s redundant

[Denathor]

OOC: The contents don’t really reflect the title. This draft, while seeming to be technically legal, doesn’t really do anything besides "give more money to poor nations." You might have to expand on this idea if you expect people to support it.

[North Jerlandia]

OOC: The contents don’t really reflect the title. This draft, while seeming to be technically legal, doesn’t really do anything besides "give more money to poor nations." You might have to expand on this idea if you expect people to support it.

You're right, I'll have to work on that one.

[Tinhampton]

[snip preamble]... HEREBY

1. DEFINES, for the purposes of this resolution,
a. "developing nations" as those nations which have a higher likelihood of having transmittable diseases that could be spread to other nations;
b. "high levels of disease transmission" as levels of disease transmission that threaten to put a nation or the international community at risk through an outbreak or epidemic.

2. REQUIRES that all WA members install temperature scanners at International airports for passengers entering or leaving a nation to try and detect individuals with abnormal temperatures and give them a health check before they are allowed to fly.

This resolution falls into exactly the same trap as Forensics Accord did; viz. defining terms that are never used in the proposal.

Furthermore, seriously ill passengers with normal temperatures would be allowed to board planes under your proposal.

[Araraukar]

OOC: Check these:
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[Verdant Haven]

Health | International Aid

THE WORLD ASSEMBLY,

ACKNOWLEDGING the high chance of transmitted diseases:

Their high chance to do what? Perhaps this should be "the danger posed by communicable diseases" instead?

NOTING that developing nations are more likely to have more diseases that could be brought to other nations;

Just from an ease-of-readability perspective, "more likely to have more diseases..." is a bit jejune. Perhaps "developing nations have a greater vulnerability to communicable diseases"

AWARE that higher disease transmission rates in any nation place the international community at risk;

BELIEVING that every nation's government is uniquely equipped to address this problem;

If every nation's govm't is uniquely equipped to address the problem, why is it proposing a single invariable solution?

HEREBY

1. DEFINES, for the purposes of this resolution,
a. "developing nations" as those nations which have a higher likelihood of having transmittable diseases that could be spread to other nations;

We've got a circular definition. This says "Developing nations are those places with higher likelihood of diseases" while above we say "Developing nations are more vulnerable to disease." Are they a developing nation because they have more diseases, or do they have more diseases because they are a developing nation? I don't think any economist on the planet would define "developing" by disease likelihood.

b. "high levels of disease transmission" as levels of disease transmission that threaten to put a nation or the international community at risk through an outbreak or epidemic.

Similar problem here. This says "high levels of disease transmission are defined as that which endangers the community" and above we say "There is a danger danger to the community if there is a high level of disease transmission." This is a tautology at best, so not useful as a definition in current form. A=A doesn't need to be defined!

2. REQUIRES that all WA members install temperature scanners at International airports for passengers entering or leaving a nation to try and detect individuals with abnormal temperatures and give them a health check before they are allowed to fly.

Why the concern about developing nations and defining high rates if we're just looking at mandating the same thing in every member state, under every condition? The definitions are totally unnecessary for the requirement proposed.

Any suggestions? It's my first time doing something like this. *Edited so contents reflect title*

I could see this running in to resistance in several places, which are worth consideration:

1) Not every disease has an effect on temperature, so is it really that effective?
2) Not every person has the same body temperature, so how are we defining limits?
3) There are likely to be massive privacy concerns. Who is monitoring this equipment? Who gets to perform check-ups? Who gets access to medical records?

[Teretstein]

You really wanna try to enforce this with a bunch of left-wing nutjobs.

We already implemented a similar protocol at our borders. And we are NOT a member of any broader group so you can't do a thing about it!

[The New Nordic Union]

You really wanna try to enforce this with a bunch of left-wing nutjobs.

'And to whom might you be referring, ambassador?'