Wayne, do you support abandoning Americans overseas during a global pandemic? As an ex-pat, I am curious about your answer.
Wayne Harrison wrote:
Rick wrote: [When Trump banned flights from China at the beginning of this mess everyone on the left freaked out, but it was the smart thing to do.
Hardly a ban... Chinese Americans were free to come and go.
Other countries, including Japan, Singapore and Korea, had a significant number of coronavirus cases, but they weren’t subject to Trump's travel restrictions. The U.S. “would likely not have picked it up” if travelers coming to the U.S. from those countries “because we weren’t using these other countries as criteria for testing.”
At a House subcommittee hearing on the coronavirus on Feb. 5, Ron Klain, White House Ebola response coordinator under the Obama administration, took issue with the characterization of the travel restrictions as a travel “ban.”
“We don’t have a travel ban,” Klain said. “We have a travel Band-Aid right now. First, before it was imposed, 300,000 people came here from China in the previous month. So, the horse is out of the barn.”
“There’s no restriction on Americans going back and forth,” Klain said. “There are warnings. People should abide by those warnings. But today, 30 planes will land in Los Angeles that either originated in Beijing or came here on one-stops, 30 in San Francisco, 25 in New York City. Okay? So, unless we think that the color of the passport someone carries is a meaningful public health restriction, we have not placed a meaningful public health restriction.”
Indeed, on Jan. 24, a week before the travel restrictions, the CDC confirmed two cases of the novel coronavirus in the U.S. from people who had returned from Wuhan, China, where the outbreak began.
Furthermore, Klain said, the import of goods from China is exempt from the travel restrictions, “and, of course, the people who fly the planes and drive the boats that bring those goods from China. We couldn’t ban that activity. We vitally need that. Ninety percent of the antibiotics in this country come from China. All kinds of vital medical supplies … we will use to treat people. So, travel bans … that’s not what we’re imposing, that’s not what exists.”
homeagain wrote: A sidebar.......I haven't heard that ALL airlines are requiring vac cards from domestic and INTERNATIONAL
flights,how many UNVAC. passengers r traveling thru are MAJOR airports and how many cases of
the variants are being carried thru air travel?......that is part of the larger picture. WHAT do you
suggest the solution could be?
Well, this thread is about unknown people breaking into the country by the hundreds of thousands and the solution would begin with new leadership that has common sense and isn't willing to sacrifice American health for future dependent voters.
As for your 'sidebar', I think every country has the right to protect themselves from people who come from other countries and have not been vaccinated, just like at the border. When Trump banned flights from China at the beginning of this mess everyone on the left freaked out, but it was the smart thing to do.
BOLDED....how short sighted and micro is that statement?
Please explain how relaying factual information is short sighted. You do this to me a lot... you make a statement I'm spposed to decipher and I have no idea what you're talking about.
HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS is a direct quote....that could ALSO describe the amount of tourists/foreigners that travel thru our airports on an hourly basis.....times,24 hours,times 7 days a week,
times 52 weeks.....HOW IS THAT NOT CONTRIBUTING to the problem of non vacced persons???
I agree, and if you look back I gave you a solution but you obviously didn't read it.
Why can't you address the topic, which is a million illegals from poor unvaxxed countries pouring into our cities. Not only do we have to worry about them bringing coivid, we also have to pay for their ability to survive. How many millions can we take in this way until our services become overwhelmed.
We know who is coming here on planes because they have to have ID's and those people are not just blending into our society forever and sharing the services we all have to pay for. Please try to consider the topic, just once.
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COUPLE of things.....new leadership is required,YES. but,certainly NOT Trump.The part about ID's, U
certainly do not know how tradecraft works....passports,ID'S can be faked,an operative could use one of MANY passports/ID's and wreck havoc with healthcare....it is NOT just the border problem and THAT was my MACRO point.
