Posted on 03/22/2020 7:17:22 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
On Saturday, Italy announced that 793 people had died that day from COVID-19, the coronavirus that originated in China that has rapidly spread across the world. That was up from 627 deaths that had occurred on Friday and 427 on Thursday. The death toll is now well over 5,000 in that country alone.
Also on Saturday, two Alitalia flights took off from Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci International Airport and landed at New York’s JFK Airport.
February 24, meanwhile, was China’s deadliest day from COVID-19; if Beijing’s possibly suspect statistics are to be believed, 149 people died from the coronavirus on that day. That afternoon, an Air China 777 arrived at JFK after a 13-hour flight from Beijing. The following day, Los Angeles International Airport welcomed flights from both Beijing and Shanghai.
That the Trump administration “banned flights,” “closed the borders,” or “stopped flights” from first China and later the European Union to halt the spread of COVID-19 has become a staple of its defense of its response to the pandemic. But it simply isn’t true. At no time through the course of this awful period have flights even once been halted between either China and the U.S. or Europe — including even Italy — and the United States.
The Trump administration did impose travel restrictions between China and the U.S., and later Europe and the U.S., but both actions have loopholes large enough to fly a 777 through. In the case of China, on Jan. 31 — weeks after it was known that the coronavirus was a serious problem — the administration restricted travel for “foreign nationals who had been in China in the last 14 days.”
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The airlines are slowly shutting down those flights anyway — because fewer and fewer people are even flying.
Semantics.
President Trump did what was recommended.
President Trump still was denounced for this action. Called a racist and more.
Cargo flights weren’t banned. Are these cargo flights?
Didn't you used to have a relative named Jeffrey?
When he did stop the flights from China, Schumer called the President a racist.
Mandatory quarantines weren’t possible because Trump = Hitler until the seriousness of this pandemic became clear. Now, it’s “why didn’t Trump go all Hitler on us earlier”?
Yes, he did. He banned most of them.
It was clear from the beginning that Americans could return to the US.
Why can’t we stop them?
You are such EFFIN LIARS.
He didn’t ban flights, he banned foreign nationals
Proclamation on Suspension of Entry as Immigrants and Nonimmigrants of Persons who Pose a Risk of Transmitting 2019 Novel Coronavirus
Healthcare
Issued on: January 31, 2020
Section 1. Suspension and Limitation on Entry. The entry into the United States, as immigrants or nonimmigrants, of all aliens who were physically present within the People’s Republic of China, excluding the Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and Macau, during the 14-day period preceding their entry or attempted entry into the United States is hereby suspended and limited subject to section 2 of this proclamation.
Punk Azz deceivers...
Because he can’t ban the return of American citizens.
I am so tired of the TDS.
Yep
Try to go there.
EU’s pro-globalism & open borders policies are so virus-friendly. Beyond expectations.
Flightaware data
Total delays today: 2,823
Total delays within, into, or out of the United States today: 1,582
Total cancellations today: 16,013
Total cancellations within, into, or out of the United States today: 6,716
A temp scan of everyone as they disembark.
LOL
freaking LAME street media complaining that the President didn’t do enough on JANUARY 31st! (when at the time they CALLED HIM RACIST!) for doing what he did!
and now MONTHS later... WHAT have the DEMOCRATIC GOVERNORS OF STATES DONE UP UNTIL NOW??????
nearly 2 MONTHS after President Trump placed travel restrictions on China, DEMOCRATIC governors are just NOW starting to do something and WHINING that they are not prepared!
Well HOT DARN!! it’s not like didn’t have MONTHS of warnings to manufacture all the freaking masks you needed!!!!
how freaking hard can it be to produce some freaking masks GOVERNORS!!!!!
“Yes, he did. He banned most of them.”
Yep, Trump did ban flights from China...he just didn’t ban ALL of them.
Presidetn Trump blocked chinese nationals from flying in; he did not stop returning U.S. citizens ...
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