07-05-2020, 12:24 AM
(07-04-2020, 09:51 PM)bfine32 Wrote: We should have shut it down to anyone but citizens trying to get back home; admittedly the Xenophobe didn't go far enough by just shutting down travelers from the country of origin. If memory serves, there was a cruise ship with folks of many Nationalities that other countries that would not allow to dock, but we did. Who knows how many American lives that cost.
What good does a travel ban on non-citizens do if citizens are allowed to return without testing, isolating, or quarantining?
None.
Viruses don’t care what your citizenship status is.
As to the cruise ship, I assume you’re referring to the Grand Princess that Trump didn’t want to dock and double our numbers (ha ha).
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2020/03/19/us/grand-princess-cruise-passengers-coronavirus.amp.html
That ship is a microcosm of our failed national response; lack of testing, lack of coordination, lack of standardization, lack of organization, lack of planning, lack of leadership.
This risk of infection to the US didn’t come from foreign nationals, but from our own citizens returning home without a consistent, organized, and standardized protocol for their safe reintegration to the general public.