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Residents of Mexican town block Americans from entering
Their informal border wall follows an upswing in Covid-19 cases in Arizona.
www.politico.com
As COVID rages uncontrolled in southern and western states (thanks to the unfathomable stupidity of those conflating the imposition of public health measures with violations of their liberty) US travelers, foreign and domestic, have become pariahs. NY now lists 16 states from which residents must quarantine themselves for 2 weeks before moving about freely. Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Idaho, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Nevada, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Utah. Similarly............................................
E.U. Formalizes Reopening, Barring Travelers From U.S. (Published 2020)
The bloc will allow visitors from 15 countries, but the United States, Brazil and Russia were among the notable absences from the safe list.
www.nytimes.com
After the unjustified invasion and occupation of Iraq it took quite a time to begin to restore the US's standing in the world. After withdrawing from the Paris climate accords, the Iran nuclear agreement, threats to withdraw from NATO, pandering to despots, the imposition of tariffs, petulant acts of buffoonery directed at various world leaders, the mistreatment of allies, and now the incomprehensible mismanagement of COVID, we are seen as an unreliable country run by a shithole President.
Unless and until we remove the Orange Fraud from office we deserve to.