Biden was accurate, The China ban did not prevent thousands of people returning home and traveling to other parts of the word.
Trump IS a Xenophobe and an ignorant bigot.
Trump lied his ass off to the yokels like you, when he KNEW how serious Covid-19 was. Didn't want to panic you. He's the one who was panicked, about what the virus would do to his reelection chances.
Bottom line is 205K dead and counting largely because of no national response. Let the states do what they want. Keep your eye on FL, THERE'S an unfolding shit show.
Trump f'd u every way he could and he's about to py for it with his job.
New Research Shows Trump China Travel Ban Was Ineffective, And Europe Ban Came Too Late
by Gary Leff on May 29, 2020
Since the President first banned certain travel from China, I’ve written that travel bans – since extended to Europe (and separately the U.K.) and most recently Brazil – haven’t mattered much because the virus was already in the U.S. and spreading. I’ve argued that the policies were, essentially, closing the barn door after the horse was out.
After all, the first U.S. diagnosis of COVID-19 was a man who arrived in Seattle from Wuhan on January 15. However it turns out that person didn’t infect anyone, so the insertion of the virus into the U.S. petered out. It didn’t merely spread undetected in the U.S. during a time when there was very little testing.
However preprint (not yet peer reviewed) research suggests the opposite – that the cases that actually seeded the outbreaks in the U.S. weren’t already here when the travel bans were put into place. Instead, the actual cases that led to real virus spread entered the U.S. after, because the bans themselves were ineffectively implemented.
The U.S. banned entry to the U.S. by foreigners who had been to China in the past 14 days starting February 2. The index case that led to spread in Washington State and on to California appears to have entered the U.S. on or about February 13 (95% likelihood between February 7 – 19).
•“40,000 US residents were repatriated from China, with screening described as cursory or lax”
•“It is also possible that the virus entered via nearby Vancouver, British Columbia, which is closely linked to both China and Washington State.”
By banning travel only from China, and only by non-U.S. residents, and by failing to thoroughly screen arriving passengers for the virus (including asymptomatic passengers) China restrictions weren’t implemented effectively enough to contain SARS-CoV-2 at the start of February.
Meanwhile an initial outbreak in Bavaria is thought to have spread to Lonbardy, Italy and sparked the outbreak there. However this study finds that outbreak died out, and that Italy’s spread was sparked independently from China. It’s that Italian outbreak that appears to have entered New York on or about February 20 (95% likelihood between February 14 – 26) ultimately leading to spread there.
On March 11 the President announced a ban on non-resident travel from Europe beginning March 13. That, clearly, was too late to matter.
https://viewfromthewing.com/new-research-show...-too-late/
Trump IS a Xenophobe and an ignorant bigot.
Trump lied his ass off to the yokels like you, when he KNEW how serious Covid-19 was. Didn't want to panic you. He's the one who was panicked, about what the virus would do to his reelection chances.
Bottom line is 205K dead and counting largely because of no national response. Let the states do what they want. Keep your eye on FL, THERE'S an unfolding shit show.
Trump f'd u every way he could and he's about to py for it with his job.
New Research Shows Trump China Travel Ban Was Ineffective, And Europe Ban Came Too Late
by Gary Leff on May 29, 2020
Since the President first banned certain travel from China, I’ve written that travel bans – since extended to Europe (and separately the U.K.) and most recently Brazil – haven’t mattered much because the virus was already in the U.S. and spreading. I’ve argued that the policies were, essentially, closing the barn door after the horse was out.
After all, the first U.S. diagnosis of COVID-19 was a man who arrived in Seattle from Wuhan on January 15. However it turns out that person didn’t infect anyone, so the insertion of the virus into the U.S. petered out. It didn’t merely spread undetected in the U.S. during a time when there was very little testing.
However preprint (not yet peer reviewed) research suggests the opposite – that the cases that actually seeded the outbreaks in the U.S. weren’t already here when the travel bans were put into place. Instead, the actual cases that led to real virus spread entered the U.S. after, because the bans themselves were ineffectively implemented.
The U.S. banned entry to the U.S. by foreigners who had been to China in the past 14 days starting February 2. The index case that led to spread in Washington State and on to California appears to have entered the U.S. on or about February 13 (95% likelihood between February 7 – 19).
•“40,000 US residents were repatriated from China, with screening described as cursory or lax”
•“It is also possible that the virus entered via nearby Vancouver, British Columbia, which is closely linked to both China and Washington State.”
By banning travel only from China, and only by non-U.S. residents, and by failing to thoroughly screen arriving passengers for the virus (including asymptomatic passengers) China restrictions weren’t implemented effectively enough to contain SARS-CoV-2 at the start of February.
Meanwhile an initial outbreak in Bavaria is thought to have spread to Lonbardy, Italy and sparked the outbreak there. However this study finds that outbreak died out, and that Italy’s spread was sparked independently from China. It’s that Italian outbreak that appears to have entered New York on or about February 20 (95% likelihood between February 14 – 26) ultimately leading to spread there.
On March 11 the President announced a ban on non-resident travel from Europe beginning March 13. That, clearly, was too late to matter.
https://viewfromthewing.com/new-research-show...-too-late/
