So, travel bans, good or bad? The more virulent the disease, the less we need travel bans?
Science?
Travel restrictions are reactive. Situational. However, it also depends on who you've got making the decisions and what they are basing those decisions on.
I didn't have an issue with Trump's restriction on travel from China for Chinese nationals (he forgot about the other 40K US citizens flying home in a panic).
The virus was coming to our shores in early 2020 regardless of who was in charge. The variant will make it here (if it hasn't already) in spite
of the leadership change. The difference is in the
RESPONSE to the virus/variant. Trump restricted travel......and then?..crickets for almost the
next two months. Never listened to the scientists or the doctors advising him of what to do and say. Just listening to the people that played
to his vanity and loyalty. What are we up to right now? Almost 785K dead? And that's about to get a whole lot worse. All those, belong to Trump, like it or not.
I never had any confidence he was capable of making the right decisions or listening to the right people. He was unfit to sit in the chair based on that alone.
With Biden, it may very well still end up being carnage. But at least I know he's listening to the right people and making decisions based on that.
Head and shoulders above the last guy.