Posted on 03/05/2020 2:40:47 PM PST by Red Badger
Globalists are declaring war on travel bans and trade restrictions as President Trump tries to stop the spread of the coronavirus in the United States.
While the death toll of the coronavirus climbs to more than 3,000 — with now six confirmed deaths in the U.S. — the World Health Organization (WHO) is standing by its declaration that travel bans must be ended and that trade restrictions should be withheld.
“Travel bans to affected areas or denial of entry to passengers coming from affected areas are usually not effective in preventing the importation of cases but may have a significant economic and social impact,” WHO officials said in a February 29 news release.
“Several countries that denied entry of travellers or who have suspended the flights to and from China or other affected countries, are now reporting cases of [coronavirus],” the WHO officials said, though they did not acknowledge how travel bans may have largely mitigated the spread of the virus into countries like the U.S.
Likewise, Georgetown University professor Mara Pillinger in Foreign Policy magazine calls travel bans on China implemented by the Trump administration “ineffective” that have “more insidious downsides” such as “incentivizing countries to conceal outbreaks, hindering response efforts, infringing on human rights, and fueling the spread of xenophobia.”
Pillinger writes:
In short, travel restrictions are both harmful and difficult to prevent. Global health experts, led by WHO, should continue to discourage such measures. But once they are imposed, the critical question becomes: What can be done to mitigate their harms? [Emphasis added]
Rep. Rho Kanna (D-CA) said on Fox News that the coronavirus outbreak in China was proof that more free trade and normal trade relations with China are necessary.
The remarks come as White House officials argue the coronavirus is proof of why their economic nationalist agenda is key to decoupling the U.S. from China, making the American economy less dependent on foreign imports.
Khanna, though, said he is worried about Apple’s profits.
“This shows why we need actually a global economy and why a trade war would be devastating for America,” Khanna said. “Look what has happened to the markets just in a few weeks. Apple is in my district. Their profits are being hurt. So we should be really understanding that we are in a global economy and America benefits the most from that global economy.”
As Breitbart News reported, the U.S. currently depends on China to produce an estimated 97 percent of all antibiotics and 80 percent of the active pharmaceutical ingredients that are needed to manufacture drugs in the U.S.
Every year, current legal immigration laws allow for nearly half a million Chinese students to study at American schools — delivering more than $10 billion worth of university fees. Likewise, since 2010, tech corporations like Amazon and Microsoft have helped bring close to 60,000 Chinese workers into the U.S. labor market.
They think we’re stupid.
This is why you can’t trust politicians.
Politicians rank just below used car salesmen, drug dealers and lawyers.......................
And what’s funny is how I remember the Democrats HATED free trade when Bush was President. Now they love it because they realized they can push an open borders, climate change, and globalist agenda along side it.
Feel free to add whale Schifft to the list too.
Amen.
ROFL!
I don’t know which group should be insulted out of those three :)
LOL That’s freaking funny!
I’ve been to at least one party thrown by a member of each group.
Good parties.
But they had the morals of an MS13 gang member
Was not personal friends with the drug dealer or car salesan....the lawyer is a relative :)
Yeah and put out a house fire with gasoline.
We have learned some things thanks to the pandemic. We should look at the bright side.
We should not concentrate all our supply chains in one country, especially a country that is not honest.
We should not depend on one source for medicines, for face masks and medical supplies, for parts for our factories, for almost everything.
There was a sci-fi novel about a future where each country or groups of countries specialized in making certain things for the world market, such that if one country had a disaster of some sort the supply chains were not interrupted, and everybody had a high standard of living....................
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