yep.
again....
Trump Administration Adds Six Countries to Travel Ban (Published 2020)
published Jan 30, 2020 and updated April 2021
The administration has argued that the ban,
enacted in 2017 to restrict travel from Muslim-majority countries, is necessary to ensure that countries satisfy security requirements for travel into the United States, or face restrictions until they do.
The expansion of the restrictions, which already affected more than 135 million people in seven countries, is likely to hinder more than 12,300 potential immigrants in the next year from resettling, finding work or reuniting with their families in the United States. The effect on Nigeria, not only Africa’s most populous country but also its largest economy, could be particularly severe. The United States issued more than 7,920 immigrant visas to Nigerians in the 2018 fiscal year, the second-most of any African country......
But it also comes as the 2020 election heats up. Mr. Trump is expected to use his travel ban, as well as his efforts to cut refugee admissions, to rally his political base as his administration contends with a Senate impeachment trial. Some of the most vulnerable populations in the world had one door to the United States shut last fall when Mr. Trump lowered his cap on refugee admissions to 18,000, down from 30,000 in the year prior. The administration has also severely restricted the ability for migrants to obtain asylum at the southwest border.
Kamala Harris was commenting on Trump's immigration ban from some African countries as an extension of his "Muslim ban". It was based on religion and race.
That is a far cry from enacting a ban to hopefully keep the US safe from a possible bad variant of Covid- 19.
Of interest is that the top nine countries regarding HIV prevalence are in southern Africa- which means conditions are there for a variant to develop with many mutations for which the vaccine will not work.
COVID-19: Emergence of Omicron variant could be down to 'reservoirs' of virus in the unvaccinated and immunosuppressed
He said: "This virus is a plastic virus - in other words, it tends to mutate very readily.
"And under conditions where it is mutating - particularly in people who might be partially immunosuppressed, in other words where they're not getting rid of the virus - that remnant virus which remains will be selectively enriched to escape immunity and to become more transmissible.
"So I think that's probably where it does arise - to a large extent unvaccinated people because they're a reservoir of the virus, the virus multiplying, and also to a large extent people who are immunosuppressed or partially immunosuppressed because they're not clearing the virus when they do get infected."
Omicron is suspected of being highly transmissible.
