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Joe Biden Drops Travel Restrictions on African Countries — WH Says It Won’t Slow Omicron in USA
Breitbart ^ | 12/24/2021 | Wendell Husebo

Posted on 12/24/2021 8:41:20 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

President Joe Biden announced Friday he will lift travel restrictions on eight African countries on December 31, attributing the decision to the fact that restricting international travel will not greatly affect the Wuhan coronavirus Omicron variant’s spread in the United States.

While Biden imposed the omicron-related travel restrictions in late November after criticizing former President Trump as racist for doing so in 2020, Biden will reportedly retract the flight restrictions nearly one month later.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: countries; omicron; restrictions; travel
Why do it in the first place???
1 posted on 12/24/2021 8:41:20 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

But a dash of Ebola might be in the offing?


2 posted on 12/24/2021 8:44:15 AM PST by xp38
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It created the false impression that lower vaccination rates are the cause of virus mutation.

Don’t know if that was the reason.


3 posted on 12/24/2021 8:44:53 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Joe must be a racist.


4 posted on 12/24/2021 8:45:56 AM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: seowulf

About that, there is no question:

He came up with some gems during the campaign:

“Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids.”

“Unlike the African-American community, with notable exceptions, the Latino community is an incredibly diverse community with incredibly different attitudes about different things.”

“If you have a problem figuring out whether you’re for me or Trump, then you ain’t Black.”

In 1977, Biden said he opposed desegregation...

H/T The American Thinker


5 posted on 12/24/2021 8:52:03 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I have wargamed this problem several times in mid-level exercises (never been invited to the Pentagon or the White House).

The problem that comes up over and over again is that necessary travel restrictions (area quarantine) will not be imposed by Western politicians until there is PROOF that they are necessary, and PROOF = pandemic disease spreading in your own population - by which time, of course, they don’t matter.

Take Delta (now almost over) as an example. Delta could have EASILY been contained in India, and it probably should have been.

But the action item was for the UK, France, and the USA to announce that all Indian airports were closed and that outbound ship traffic was prohibited for 90 days, and that the Fifth Fleet and the Royal Navy had been ordered to sail for the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea to enforce the quarantine, and that lethal force would be used, including shooting down the first passenger airliner to take off from India without warning, AND THEN TO DO IT.

Does anyone believe that such a thing could be possible in our world?


6 posted on 12/24/2021 8:54:08 AM PST by Jim Noble (The nation cannot be saved until the GOP is destroyed)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Kinda hard to make the case with our southern border wide open.


7 posted on 12/24/2021 9:41:09 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Again proves how unserious they are about stopping this pandemic vs trying to enforce totalitarian control over us.


8 posted on 12/24/2021 10:19:34 AM PST by Skywise
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Identity politics trumps health policy in Dem world.


9 posted on 12/24/2021 10:34:02 AM PST by chuckee
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To: ChicagoConservative27

They dropped it out of fear of being labeled racist.


10 posted on 12/24/2021 11:33:39 AM PST by pas
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