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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Banning travel by anyone who had been in China made sense at some point, but by that token so did banning travel by anyone who had been in Korea, Japan or Italy, something Trump never did. The singling out of China certainly leads one to believe that he was moved by reasons unrelated to public health. I wouldn't say racism, since he failed to ban travel from other East Asian countries.
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Banning travel was the dumb option, but yes, if it was travel from anywhere risky it would have been helpful.
Instead, we should have been screening all travelers, all of whom may have been infected.