colfax_m
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I never called any travel ban racist and it wasn’t even a travel ban given the fact that Americans still were traveling to and from China throughout that time frame.Yes, referring to the cases that came over from China. Problem is the EU didn’t ban travel when they should have, and there’s a lot of travel between the EU and the US, specifically in NY airports that are popular hubs for EU travel. Which is why NY has 3,000 cases, and most other cities only have a few hundred. See how that works. That being said the travel ban on China did buy us a month of precious time. Time enough to find a treatment before this really starts to hit.Trump took a victory lap shortly after banning travel. He claimed the number of cases would reach zero in a few daysJust because it moved out of the country of origin, doesn’t mean it isn’t containable. You can contain the few that slip through the cracks. You can’t do that when you let anybody who wants to come over from an outbreak region. Do you not see why that would be a problem? It wasn’t just a problem for the either, that shit came over to New York, our biggest hub for European travel, and now NY is looking at 3000 cases that’s gonna probably be 10000 in a couple of days.Oh Jesus, Italy has more elderly, and the family units are stronger. A lot of grandparents live with the family and if they don’t they are visited more often. Also, some politicians in Italy thought it was a good idea to have a “hug a Chinese person day” during a pandemic to show how woke you are. That obviously didn’t work out for a lot of people. Goes to show you how seriously some of the politicians were taking this, they weren't, they were trying to score political points...a lot like the OP topic. And wrong again, the entire EU is being rocked. Italy is just the most staggering example of what happens when politicians don’t take shit seriously.For that to have worked for Italy, the entire EU would’ve had to restrict travel. Europe is a pandemics wet dream. Tons of public transport, that’s used often, people with money and time to travel, hostels, tightly packed cities, tons of tourist attractions. Italy’s travel ban was useless. Which is why I said the EU needed too. I mean I shouldn’t have to say what I just said because one should be able to pretty easily logically deduce why a travel ban worked in USA but not in Italy. Just look at the evidence staring you in the face. You can contain the few carriers that slip through the cracks of the flights banned to a region that came through other regions...you can’t contain the 30 or so carriers a day traveling coming in from direct flights to your region.Not exactly.You're a liar. The President shut down travel from China on January 31st and Democrats criticized him for it.Right...trump caused a global economic collapse...used his narcissism to will a brand new disease to jump from bats to humans...and then used inception to go into the dreams of the Chinese and leaders of the EU and plant the idea that they should wait a month too late to ban travel because it would be seen as racist. Good analysisI think it’s unanimous that the Dims are betting on a total collapse to further their political agenda, however, it’s a two sided sword which will come back and cut deep. One can only hope voters recognize this when they cast their vote.
Funny how when it’s time to bailout Autos, banks, big business, it’s the American thing to do when Dim sits at the desk.
The collapse is already here. Putins boy asswipe made it happen. I warned you and yours about him, but you wouldn't listen. CORPORATE RACKETEERS MAKE VERY BAD PRESIDENTS.....
Asswipe didn't address the problem early enough. He was more concerned about his reelection.
He restricted foreign nationals from entering the country who had been to the affected region. Americans and immediate family of Americans who are foreign nationals were allowed to travel back and forth. They were not legally prevented from doing so.
Flights continued between the two countries.
You know who did ban flights in and out of China on that exact same day? Italy.
COVID had almost certainly taken hold in Italy prior to the declaration.
No travel ban (or attempted ban) was effective. If you want to blame Italy’s situation on lack of a ban, then the entire EU would be suffering the same fate, and they aren’t.
The point is that the disease was global by Jan 31. No travel restrictions absent completely shutting the border was going to be effective. The rest of the EU is not affected to the same degree and many no more so than us.
Talking about scoring political points is exactly what Trump has been doing this whole time.
If it was containable, we clearly didn’t do it given our burden of disease here.
Like I said, you’d have to do a LOT more than what Trump did.
What more could he have done? give us specific actions and times that could have been done. You said he was racist when he banned travel from China, BTW, chinese is not a race.
You said banning travel from China would prevent any outbreak in the US.
No one ever said it would prevent any outbreak. Trump and everyone else who knows anything said that banning travel from China would limit the impact on the US and it did.
You know it’s funny how quickly y’all stopped calling travel bans racist all of a sudden. Anyone else notice that...