U.S. imposes travel ban from eight African countries over Omicron varian

They called the ones for African countries racist.

 

Yeah,and Big Whoop..
That was then, this is Now...
Whataboutism, much?

This (below) is the Topic of this thread, do you agree or disagree with the decision?

The United States will bar entry to most travelers from eight southern African countries starting on Monday, after a potentially more-contagious new coronavirus variant was identified in South Africa, President Joe Biden said on Friday.

 

It can fight it out with Delta.

 

NO..
Any more questions...

 

We're being played? Who said bureaucrats don't have a sense of humor!

 

I'm just going to leave these right here.






I hope everyone gets the manipulation.

Also... China Joe is and always has been a racist, but Leftists don't care, because he is their racist.

 

Leftist hypocrisy at it again!

Not only has brandon been terrible at protecting us from covid, he is now being racist...again.

smh.

Par for the course.

 

Is Biden's Xi's 'holster'?

 

A bit more on Omicron:

Perhaps reassuringly for those who are worrying about this new development, Coetzee noted that none of the cases she knew of were serious. “What we are seeing clinically in South Africa, and remember that I’m at the epicenter, that’s where I’m practicing, is extremely mild…We haven’t admitted anyone [to hospital]. I spoke to other colleagues of mine: The same picture,” she told the BBC.

 

Stuart Wolfe said: ↑


When Biden says Trump is against black and brown people immigrating here because of the travel ban, is Biden accusing Trump of being racist and/or a bigot, yes or no?

OMG. I have read and put up with his B.S. posts forever now, because I don't much believe in "ignore" or reporting or any of that stuff. However, this one simple answer should convince EVERYONE to put this poster on ignore, no matter what "side" of the debate you're on. It's either total blatant dishonesty or objective evidence of a truly twisted thought process or lack of one altogether.

 

Well, yeah...

1. That particular NYT article isn't paywalled... they aren't all, ya know.. Actually, the Reuters article in the OP does require registration... I cannot even find the 8 countries listed in there without it.

2. Trump making non-COVID based travel bans on African countries mixed in at the same time as the China COVID travel ban could certainly be considered highly suspect. If they were COVID travel bans, T**** would have been the first one screaming it to the sky...

3. Since you opened the door to those not being COVID related, I think the "hypocrisy" part of this thread has been relatively debunked since you have to be comparing 2 somewhat similar situations....

That's my bottom line here... Biden COVID bans OK, if not strong or fast enough and not remotely hypocritical... heck I just checked and there is not even overlap in the countries...

 

Debunked..

 

Maybe Omicron is Joe's way of fixing gas prices .......

Nov 26 (Reuters) - Oil prices plunged $10 a barrel on Friday, their largest one-day drop since April 2020, as a new variant of the coronavirus spooked investors and added to concerns that a supply surplus could swell in the first quarter.

Oil fell with global equities markets on fears the variant, could dampen economic growth and fuel demand.

All for a variant that has hospitalized no one so far.

 

It is racist when the right does it.
It is NOT racist when the left does it.
Please understand how things work in 2021.
Thank you

 

You guys...



https://www.abc10.com/article/news/...u-xi/507-cf1973d4-3f93-419f-bf47-3fa5a065bcf2

Can you imagine the confusion if people called something the Nu Variant?? Say it aloud and THINK about that for a second....

 

Why do trumpsters spread lies when the truth doesn’t support their narrative? Oh wait. I just answered that question.

 

It isn’t racist. Please understand the difference between the truth and the RW narrative.

 

BIDEN’S COVID SCORECARD IS WORSE THAN TRUMP’S

"Joe Biden has ordered a ban on travel from eight African countries due to the emergence of the latest coronavirus variant. The countries from which Biden is cutting off travel are South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Lesotho, Eswatini, Mozambique and Malawi. When Donald Trump banned travel from China in the early days of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, Biden called the move xenophobic."

Updating. 361,207 dead on Biden's watch. If 220,000 dead disqualifies Trump, then Biden by his own reckoning is 165% disqualified and more so each day.

More are dying of COVID this season, with 3 vaccines, under Biden, than were dying a year ago under Trump with no vaccines.

The slow motion Biden Disaster.

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A few more snippets from South Africa:

Most importantly, and running counter to the fearmongering narrative being pumped out 24/7 by the mainstream media, Schoub said that the large number of mutations found in the omicron variant appears to destabilize the virus, which might make it less “fit” than the dominant delta strain.

“In a way, hopefully it won’t displace delta because delta we know responds very well to the vaccine,” he said.

At the same time, one could make the point that while Omicron could soon become the dominant strain due to its higher R-nought (or pace of transmission), that could be a blessing in disguise as it pushes out the much more dangerous (and more stable) delta strain.

Even more remarkably, she said that “we haven’t admitted anyone” to the hospital with the new variant,” she said. “I spoke to other colleagues of mine, the same picture.”

Asked if authorities around the world were panicking unnecessarily, Coetzee said “yes, at this stage I would say definitely. Two weeks from now on maybe we will say something different."

 

Pretty much, yes, he was accusing dirty donny of being a bigot in relation to THAT restriction. But that restriction had nothing to do with Covid.
Biden didn’t criticize the Covid travel restrictions as being racist.
That’s the fact. It’s a fact that doesn’t fit with the RW narrative, but it’s still a fact.

 

A Covid-related travel ban. That’s what I was responding to.

 

Not travel bans. Immigration restrictions unrelated to Covid.

Do you agree with Biden’s travel restrictions?

 

Once again, you are showing everyone that you lack an understanding of the EXACT point being debated.

And, so--here we go again.

Clearly, for the umpteenth time, you need to be walked very slowly through the exchange:

First this was posted:

*emphasis added*

Then, this was posted:

*emphasis added*

Then (posting something that DID NOT answer the question posed by user "bx4") this was posted:

And--Here was my Only CLAIM:

That This LINK (below):

https://theintercept.com/2020/05/16/racism-coronavirus-china-europe/

Did NOT answer the question of (or in any way prove the assertion, or show any example of):

"a Democrat calling Trump racist for implementing a travel ban"

Which, I pointed out:

And, thus my post was 100% Correct in term of pointing out that the provided link DID NOT back up that assertion.

Not sure why anybody would persist in hammering home a losing argument (like you have been doing). But hey, you do you.
As long as you follow PF's Rules of Etiquette, I have no objections,
There are many shades and colors of opinions.
And any of us (who can post their thoughts in a civil manner) deserves their place in the spectrum.
Carry on.

 

And the right wing was praising and worshipping Trump for his travel ban. Did they do the same for Biden?

 

The dishonesty is predictable.

Anyways, everyone KNOWS that Brandon was calling Trump a racist and completely misrepresenting the ban for political points and it increase the amount of division in the U.S. as is the dem way.

Now, we have a perfect example of him doing the exact same thing and dems (predicably) are applying a double standard (as usual) to reckless racist brandons travel ban.

That being said, everytime this type of hypocrisy is demonstrated dems loose a little bit more credibility with the American people and its only a matter of time before it costs them power.

On a seperate but related note, brandon has been the worst president of our lifetime.