Five Republican senators led by Marco Rubio on Friday asked President Joe Biden's administration to ban travel between the United States and China after a spike in Chinese respiratory illness cases.
  • Heresy_generator@kbin.social
    536·
    1 year ago

    Marco Rubio, JD Vance, Rick Scott, Tommy Tuberville, and Mike Braun; in case you were wondering who could possibly be that clownish.

    “We should immediately restrict travel between the United States and (China) until we know more about the dangers posed by this new illness,”

    We literally have zero evidence to suggest there’s a new illness. None.

    • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldEnglish
      134·
      1 year ago

      Agreed, and besides that, travel bans are about the stupidest possible measure you could take to curb the spread of a virus even if there was a new one that was dangerous.

      Imagine you’re in China on vacation or business. Biden says we’re implementing a travel ban. Would you just shrug your shoulders and get an apartment in China? Or work out a way to get into the US via a third country?

      All it does, in reality, is make it more complicated and difficult to track the people who are coming into the US from China, because preventing that completely for any length of time is more or less impossible.

      Edit: Source 1 and Source 2