The World Builds a Wall to Keep America Out
America has no monopoly on success.
You might call it poetic, if it werent so painful. Donald Trump won the White House largely on a campaign of shutting Americas borders to pretty much everyone other than people of European descent. Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here? he once asked, about Haitians, Salvadorans and Africans. We should have more people from places like Norway.
So what should one conclude about Americas own proximity to Trumps global latrine now that places like Norway have decided to keep their borders indefinitely closed to us?
Among the list of nations to which Norway and the rest of Europe will soon reopen for travel are three from the continent that Trump flushed down the toilet: Algeria, Morocco and Rwanda. Canada is also on the list. So is China, assuming it reciprocates.
But Trumps America is not, because we are nowhere close to meeting Europes criteria for reducing the spread of the coronavirus. How successfully a society can fight a pandemic is as objective a measure of national capacity, not to mention greatness, as one is likely to find and on this, like so much else these days, America ranks near the bottom.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/opinion/us-travel-ban-europe.html