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Trump Administration Bans Chinese Passenger Airlines from Flying to U.S.
The Trump administration is banning Chinese passenger airlines from flying to the U.S. starting later this month, a move that comes as Beijing prohibits U.S. airlines to resume flights there. The order, published Wednesday, takes effect June 16, but it could be moved up. (www.cnbc.com) More...
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Too many partisan comments. Just like New Zealand’s actions, some decisions make sense. The US remains a COVID epicentre, along with Brazil and other countries. And also, in the US, masses of people flaunting social distancing and flocking to swimming pools and parties exacerbates the problem. Why not try to stem a flow of potential asymptomatic covid carriers? Unfortunately, it becomes a public tit-for-tat squabble. I used to think a second wave of infections as preventable. However, seeing all the divisiveness, it looks like second and third waves are inevitable.
This is a good move.
It's actually a petty move.
Comparing China to the US over the handling of the coronavirus, I'd probably block US flights too. Very little testing, a population that flagrantly ignores warnings, and keeps projecting their inadequacies unto others.
China has tested far more of their population than we have. They have handled the spread of it, after stumbling in the beginning, rather well. The efforts here have been haphazard, disorganized, and in many areas totally ineffectual, and actually made things worse.
But China probably did this over the administration taunting them. It's becoming such a childish game of finger pointing, posturing, and pouting. It's an embarrassment on both sides. If the pandemic had been met head-on from the beginning in this country, tens of thousands of people would still be alive, and hundreds of thousands wouldn't have been infected. And now comes news that many people aren't getting better that had the infection in MARCH!
My fear is that the inaction, and ineptitude has given the virus the chance to mutate and those mutations are spreading around on top of the original contagion. This virus, and its variants are nothing to take lightly, but that's what has happened. It's damned tragic. This has always been a public health issue, and should never have been usurped by the White House.
As far as air travel, it should be more heavily controlled, and there should be LESS flights than more. *sigh*
Comparing China to the US over the handling of the coronavirus, I'd probably block US flights too. Very little testing, a population that flagrantly ignores warnings, and keeps projecting their inadequacies unto others.
China has tested far more of their population than we have. They have handled the spread of it, after stumbling in the beginning, rather well. The efforts here have been haphazard, disorganized, and in many areas totally ineffectual, and actually made things worse.
But China probably did this over the administration taunting them. It's becoming such a childish game of finger pointing, posturing, and pouting. It's an embarrassment on both sides. If the pandemic had been met head-on from the beginning in this country, tens of thousands of people would still be alive, and hundreds of thousands wouldn't have been infected. And now comes news that many people aren't getting better that had the infection in MARCH!
My fear is that the inaction, and ineptitude has given the virus the chance to mutate and those mutations are spreading around on top of the original contagion. This virus, and its variants are nothing to take lightly, but that's what has happened. It's damned tragic. This has always been a public health issue, and should never have been usurped by the White House.
As far as air travel, it should be more heavily controlled, and there should be LESS flights than more. *sigh*
You seem to forget where the virus originated and the lengths the Chinese regime in Beijing went to in trying to conceal it. China is the problem here not the US.
No mention in the article or ensuing debate about China taking over Hong Kong, which is THE major source of tension between the two countries right now.
That should have been the first course of action. It really does no good to continue to allow those flights into America.
