Bottomsouth wrote:Nuntius wrote:MotownMadness wrote: And im sure to you it was also racist and fear mongering early when he put in the china travel ban.
One thing to note here:
The only country that has been able to stop Covid-19 so far, South Korea, never issued a travel ban to China.
Not entirely true, they restricted travel from parts of China. Also, they had petitions with over 500k signatures to ban all travel. To add, Japan restricted travel.
True, they did restrict travel from Hubei, the province where the epicenter is located. It's also true that they had petitions to ban all travel for China but they didn't do it and the president has faced criticism for not issuing a travel ban.
Look, I'm not trying to say that a travel ban under the circumstances of pandemic is bad, evil or anything of that sort. I get why countries are issuing those travel bans. But you can't say "oh, I issued a travel ban so everything is peachy" either. The travel bans aren't a solution alone. You can't let those travel bans give you a false sense of security. You have to do a lot more to stop it from spreading and it looks like most of the world failed to do that.