Posted on 10/03/2020 7:31:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The World Health Organization’s (W.H.O) assertion that closing borders would not stem the spread of the Chinese coronavirus was based on politics and economics, not science, according to the findings of a New York Times investigation unveiled this week.
After publishing several editorials suggesting that President Donald Trump’s coronavirus-linked travel bans were racist, unjust, and ineffective, the Times conceded on Wednesday:
For decades, as trade and travel drew the world closer, public health policy, enshrined by treaty, encouraged global mass tourism by calling for open borders, even during outbreaks.
When the coronavirus emerged in China in January, the World Health Organization didn’t flinch in its advice: Do not restrict travel.
But what is now clear is that the policy was about politics and economics more than public health. Public health records, scores of scientific studies and interviews with more than two dozen experts show the policy of unobstructed travel was never based on hard science.
The World Health Organization has long encouraged mass tourism and said closing borders wouldn’t stop the spread of Covid-19. A New York Times investigation found this policy was never based on science, but instead on politics and economics. https://t.co/bQcZ9Mquu1
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 30, 2020
Despite recommendations by the W.H.O., a United Nations entity, against imposing travel curbs on nations plagued by the Chinese coronavirus, U.S. President Donald Trump restricted travel into the United States from China, the virus’s origin place, on January 31.
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what?
I can’t believe it either. The New York Times said this? I swear I think I just saw a pig fly past my window.
Did Hillary take to her broom again?
Good Lord I hope not!
I wonder what would happen to the NYT under a dictator. I wonder if the NYT has thought about it?
I can’t believe they wrote this!
The NY Slimes?
Watch for flying pigs!
blind squirrel, etc.
We return you now to the NY Slimes’ regularly-scheduled Trump-hatred ...
And when is China going to open their borders?
Wait, what?
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