Boldface Liar in Chief re banning flights from China

[Laura PourMeADrink]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2020/03/12/italy-banned-flights-from-china-before-americait-didnt-work/

On March 11
Speaking to the nation last night, U.S. President Donald Trump said a ban on Europeans entering the United States is necessary because Europe hadn’t banned flights from China early as the U.S. had done.

“The European Union failed to take the same precautions and restrict travel from China and other hot spots as a result a large number of new clusters were seeded by travellers from Europe,” he said.

TRUTH

But virtually every part of this statement is untrue.

Italy imposed a ban on flights from China on 31 January, immediately after a Chinese couple in Rome tested positive for the virus. The U.S. began to restrict flights from China four days later. But while Italy enacted a full ban, the U.S. policy was only a restriction, with wide exemptions.

[tanyev]

1. Donny wants a medal for how magnificently he slammed the barn door after all the horses got out.

[dalton99a]

2. Kushner and Miller wrote most of that speech. They all make up facts at will

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. He brags about bucking the system and how all Dems were

against it at the time. Total bullshit.

But, I swear, don't start digging into the whole subject because it will make you REALLY get sick about how the whole thing was handled on so many levels. The virus was already here when the ban was announced and it needed to be coupled with so much more effort we weren't ready for. Plus because the ban was only on one country, when the virus was already reported in others, the effectiveness was diminished.

Al Jazeera has a good timeline
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2020/01/timeline-china-coronavirus-spread-200126061554884.html

[dalton99a]

4. Good chronology. There is also another key date:

10th January 2020
Novel 2019 coronavirus genome
The Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center & School of Public Health, in collaboration with the Central Hospital of Wuhan, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control, and the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia is releasing a coronavirus genome from a case of a respiratory disease from the Wuhan outbreak.

http://virological.org/t/novel-2019-coronavirus-genome/319

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 isolate Wuhan-Hu-1, complete genome
Submitted (05-JAN-2020) Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center & School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

(published by National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nuccore/MN908947

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. I think trump is relying on the fact that no one is really piecing

the timeline on this effectively. And his actions were always affected by the financial perspective before any human perspective. Hell, he admitted as much when he said yesterday? that he disbanded the pandemic team to save salaries. That's a business perspective, albeit a short-sighted one.

[malaise]

6. Yep

with wide exemptions and very few checks

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. They didn't ban goods shipments from China with Chinese

crews. Plus Americans coming in.

One thing I've thought about often is how we all automatically think that our friends and loved ones (and back then, fellow Americans) are safe to be around..just because we know and love them.