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Trump shuts barn door after horses have left: Europe travel ban
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<blockquote data-quote="SoldierOfTheKing" data-source="post: 74792933" data-attributes="member: 136506"><p>No, but neither is the UK signatory to a treaty prohibiting border checks with other European countries.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The information I have suggests that the UK's infection rate is well below most Schengen countries...</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/" target="_blank">Coronavirus Update (Live)</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><em>"Additionally, last week, I signed into law an $8.3 billion funding bill to help C.D.C. and other government agencies fight the virus and support vaccines, treatments and distribution of medical supplies. <strong>Testing and testing capabilities are expanding rapidly, day by day. We are moving very quickly.</strong>"</em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>A one-size-fits-all set of guide of guidelines wouldn't have been appropriate, because status of the epidemic varies widely in different parts of the country.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Perhaps we lack the information to provide those, especially considering how many unknown factors there still are. Not to mention that if the President did provide those and they weren't 100% accurate, you'd call him incompetent for it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Travel bans are a means of containing the infected, in fact one of the most important ways.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The US hasn't been behind. On the contrary, the epidemic has not his the US as hard as it has most of the rest of the industrialized world, and that was in large part due to the ban on travel from China. This is why it was necessary to extend the travel ban to most European countries. As the President pointed out:</p><p></p><p><em>"Our team is the best anywhere in the world. At the very start of the outbreak, we instituted sweeping travel restrictions on China and put in place the first federally mandated quarantine in over 50 years. We declared a public health emergency and issued the highest level of travel warning on other countries as the virus spread its horrible infection.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>And taking early intense action, we have seen dramatically fewer cases of the virus in the United States than are now present in Europe.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em><strong>The European Union failed to take the same precautions and restrict travel from China and other hot spots. As a result, a large number of new clusters in the United States were seeded by travelers from Europe.</strong>"</em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's a small minority of European countries, and are you including non-Schengen countries?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><em>"At the same time, we are monitoring the situation in China and in South Korea."</em></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Then perhaps the UK's infection rate will catch up with the rest of Western Europe and the travel ban will be extended to the UK.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Which country has a higher infection rate, the US or Korea? That's already been addressed on this thread hasn't it? The contradictory nature of all this criticism of the administration is showing itself. Because it isn't really about the virus at all, it's about trying to score political points against the President for the November election, and exploiting whatever can be exploited to do so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoldierOfTheKing, post: 74792933, member: 136506"] No, but neither is the UK signatory to a treaty prohibiting border checks with other European countries. The information I have suggests that the UK's infection rate is well below most Schengen countries... [URL='https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/']Coronavirus Update (Live)[/URL] [I]"Additionally, last week, I signed into law an $8.3 billion funding bill to help C.D.C. and other government agencies fight the virus and support vaccines, treatments and distribution of medical supplies. [B]Testing and testing capabilities are expanding rapidly, day by day. We are moving very quickly.[/B]"[/I] A one-size-fits-all set of guide of guidelines wouldn't have been appropriate, because status of the epidemic varies widely in different parts of the country. Perhaps we lack the information to provide those, especially considering how many unknown factors there still are. Not to mention that if the President did provide those and they weren't 100% accurate, you'd call him incompetent for it. Travel bans are a means of containing the infected, in fact one of the most important ways. The US hasn't been behind. On the contrary, the epidemic has not his the US as hard as it has most of the rest of the industrialized world, and that was in large part due to the ban on travel from China. This is why it was necessary to extend the travel ban to most European countries. As the President pointed out: [I]"Our team is the best anywhere in the world. At the very start of the outbreak, we instituted sweeping travel restrictions on China and put in place the first federally mandated quarantine in over 50 years. We declared a public health emergency and issued the highest level of travel warning on other countries as the virus spread its horrible infection. And taking early intense action, we have seen dramatically fewer cases of the virus in the United States than are now present in Europe. [B]The European Union failed to take the same precautions and restrict travel from China and other hot spots. As a result, a large number of new clusters in the United States were seeded by travelers from Europe.[/B]"[/I] That's a small minority of European countries, and are you including non-Schengen countries? [I]"At the same time, we are monitoring the situation in China and in South Korea."[/I] Then perhaps the UK's infection rate will catch up with the rest of Western Europe and the travel ban will be extended to the UK. Which country has a higher infection rate, the US or Korea? That's already been addressed on this thread hasn't it? The contradictory nature of all this criticism of the administration is showing itself. Because it isn't really about the virus at all, it's about trying to score political points against the President for the November election, and exploiting whatever can be exploited to do so. [/QUOTE]
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