When Trump called COVID "the Chinese virus," it led to a rise in anti-Asian attacks.

This racist and ineffective policy from the Biden White House will have the same devastating effect. Shame on you!

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/28/politics/us-covid-measures-travelers-china/index.html

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Requiring negative tests for flights from a single country is ineffective because the US is already letting it rip and generating variants, and also because people travel everywhere, so variants that may become dominant in China will still reach the US via other countries.

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The Biden White House requiring negative tests for only China is a move that puts politics over public health, and increases the likelihood of xenophobia and attacks on Asian people in the US.

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If the US is really worried about variants and the spread of COVID through travel, it should require negative tests for all travelers, no matter where they come from, and require masks. Targeting single countries with bans and requirements is ineffective and racist.

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@luckytran
Absolutely. And it's not like the US even gives a shit about Covid. Yes, what is coming out of China is scary, especially the sheer numbers of people coming from China that are positive. But what does it even matter when there are absolutely no mitigations in place anywhere else in the US? The hypocrisy and gaslighting is staggering.
@Ekinnajay @luckytran Yep. It’s like how our city issues travel advisories and recommends testing/isolation on return for states with high transmission even when our own rates are as high or higher and they happily refuse to implement any community-level mitigations whatsoever.