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Re: Objectively intelligent.
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Originally Posted by Adder
Right, and banning travel wasn't the right tool. We should have been screening all passengers, isolating the sick and tracing their contacts. I don't think there was even an active outbreak when we went to China (maybe 7 years ago) and there was someone with a temperature gun both in the airport in Hong Kong and crossing the bordering into mainland China.
But that would have required actually organizing something, which is not a capability that government by Kushner, Miller and Trump can actually do.
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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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