The disparate impact of Biden’s African travel ban on black people proves Democrats are hypocrites guilty of doing what they claimed was wrong under Trump.
thefederalist.com
30 Nov 2021 ~~ By Jonathan S. Tobin
Will new restrictions on travel from Africa to the United States protect Americans from the COVID-19 Omicron variant? The jury is still out on that, even as reasonable people may worry more that the chance to continue fearmongering is driving some of the alarmism.
But one thing we know for sure is that the same people who are praising Biden’s decision to restrict travel from areas where the new strain has been detected were singing a very different tune when the same tactic was employed by former President Donald Trump. When asked directly on Monday whether Biden was a hypocrite for criticizing measures that he has now employed, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki
responded with what can only be described as a brazen lie.
Psaki
claimed Biden “has not been critical of travel restrictions — we have put those in place ourselves.” She said Biden’s claim as a presidential candidate that Trump’s travel ban was racist was merely
criticizing a tweet and that Biden was consulting with scientists and Trump was not. These assertions are
false.
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It’s possible that Biden, like other world leaders, is overreacting to the new variant. After 21 months of government overreach on COVID-19 precautions, skepticism is warranted. But we do know the attacks on Trump over these issues were nothing but partisan propaganda and had nothing to do with genuine concerns about discrimination.
At the very least, Biden and his supporters are hypocrites. But their willingness to employ measures that hurt black Americans and other unvaccinated minorities — all the while spewing spurious claims that unvaccinated Republicans and Trump supporters are the reason why the virus is still out there — means that if anyone is guilty of embracing measures that disproportionately hurt black people, it is Biden, not his predecessor.
Commentary:
Travel bans may be necessary, not to stop the spread but to slow it down. Trump applied the travel while Biden accused him of Xenophobia and incompetence. Yet 21 months later Biden does the same with a mutation of the same virus. Yet, at the same time Biden has no plans after that. In Trump's case he was pushing for a vaccine at the same time, hoping to prevent as many deaths as possible. Biden tried to take incentives away from vaccine producers a few months back. I have not heard of him trying to do anything different than what Trump had already done in regards to new strains. Plus ... it's so double-faced hypocritical of them to run down Trump's efforts and his travel bans at that crucial time when they impose travel bans now.