BIden Imposes Black Travel Ban

[saxitoxin]

Biden today imposed an entry ban on people from seven majority Black nations.

[JdeV 100]

tbf you might compare this to a security ban but Biden has not called this one "the Black Ban" at any time. And it is a health measure, you can make politics of health emergencies if you want but imo it's just misguided.

[jonesthecurl]

omigawd omicron

[saxitoxin]

tbf you might compare this to a security ban but Biden has not called this one "the Black Ban" at any time.

Trump did not call it a "Muslim Ban" at any time.

I don't make the rules, I just follow them. This is the Black travel ban.

[HitRed]

Wasn’t it a China travel ban?

[saxitoxin]

Even Biden disagrees with his Black travel ban.

[Dukasaur]

Reaching pretty far to try to draw an equivalence between a travel ban for legitimate health concerns and a travel ban that seeks only to rile up one's redneck supporters.

[saxitoxin]

Reaching pretty far to try to draw an equivalence between a travel ban for legitimate health concerns and a travel ban that seeks only to rile up one's redneck supporters.

You spelled "A travel ban opposed by doctors and scientists at the WHO versus a travel ban for legitimate national security and anti terrorism concerns." wrong.

[saxitoxin]

Interesting Biden banned travel from every country where Omicron was detected except the two white countries (Belgium and Israel).

[Dukasaur]

I haven't seen any "legitimate national security and anti terrorism concerns". The vast majority of your terrorists are homegrown. Except for that one isolated statistical outlier, imported terrorists are a pretty insignificant issue in your country.

[saxitoxin]

I have seen a consensus of Science saying travel bans don't help stop disease spread. So why is Biden using a travel ban at all, let alone one narrowly applied only to Black countries?

[Dukasaur]

No idea. Probably fear of being called careless.

[saxitoxin]

No idea.

Occam's Razor says it's because he's racist.

[saxitoxin]

[Dukasaur]

Occam's Razor says it's because he's racist.

I don't think you know what Occam's Razor is.

Occam's Razor militates in favour of the simplest solution. Given the fact that the public is still very jittery about Covid, it's perfectly simple and straightforward to assume that someone who's sensitive about his approval ratings would tend to over-react rather than under-react to new developments on the Covid front.

Some convoluted theory that the man who spent eight years as Obama's loyal stooge secretly hates blacks is, quite frankly, a little hard to support.

[HitRed]

Some convoluted theory that the man who married a foreigner secretly hates foreigners is, quite frankly, a little hard to support.

[saxitoxin]

Occam's Razor says it's because he's racist.

I don't think you know what Occam's Razor is.

Occam's Razor militates in favour of the simplest solution.

The simplest solution as to why Biden banned travel from Omicron infected Botswana and not Omicron infected Belgium is because he's racist. All other solutions require leap of faith conjecture.

[Dukasaur]

Occam's Razor says it's because he's racist.

I don't think you know what Occam's Razor is.

Occam's Razor militates in favour of the simplest solution.

The simplest solution as to why Biden banned travel from Omicron infected Botswana and not Omicron infected Belgium is because he's racist. All other solutions require leap of faith conjecture.

Absolutely not. Botswana has 4 doctors per 10K population, Belgium has 42 doctors per 10K, more than ten times as many.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_number_of_physicians
Belgium's medical establishment is more than 10 times more likely to be able to respond quickly to outbreaks and effectively quarantine infected people before they travel.

[saxitoxin]

Occam's Razor says it's because he's racist.

I don't think you know what Occam's Razor is.

Occam's Razor militates in favour of the simplest solution.

The simplest solution as to why Biden banned travel from Omicron infected Botswana and not Omicron infected Belgium is because he's racist. All other solutions require leap of faith conjecture.

Absolutely not. Botswana has 4 doctors per 10K population, Belgium has 42 doctors per 10K, more than ten times as many.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_number_of_physicians
Belgium's medical establishment is more than 10 times more likely to be able to respond quickly to outbreaks and effectively quarantine infected people before they travel.

Is the SIMPLEST solution this algorithm you created and has not been mentioned by anyone anywhere? Or is it racism?

It's racism.

[JdeV 100]

Just ftr.

tbf you might compare this to a security ban but Biden has not called this one "the Black Ban" at any time.

Trump did not call it a "Muslim Ban" at any time.

I don't make the rules, I just follow them. This is the Black travel ban.

That doesn't make sense (and you did call it Trump's Muslim ban, in the poll).

He gave a whole speech about banning Muslims https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/ ... ech-224273. He was pretty much the only one, present company excluded, who didn't see a problem with calling it that https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politi ... 03344.html.

[HitRed]

should Biden still be mandating the firing all the nurses and caregivers that may be needed to aid the sick?

[saxitoxin]

Just ftr.

tbf you might compare this to a security ban but Biden has not called this one "the Black Ban" at any time.

Trump did not call it a "Muslim Ban" at any time.

you did call it Trump's Muslim ban, in the poll

This may come as a shock, but I'm not Donald Trump.

[Dukasaur]

Just ftr.

tbf you might compare this to a security ban but Biden has not called this one "the Black Ban" at any time.

Trump did not call it a "Muslim Ban" at any time.

you did call it Trump's Muslim ban, in the poll

This may come as a shock, but I'm not Donald Trump.

Might as well be. You encapsulate his attitudes.