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RobinsShaman t1_j1z3f81 wrote

Yes but be sure to waste time thinking about it. 🙃

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tahlyn t1_j1z5nto wrote

Is it March of 2020 again? I'm not sure I can stomach living through those years again...

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AlternatexReality212 t1_j1z617w wrote

Makes sense. Aren't they scrapping travel restrictions during record numbers?

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Known_Soft_7599 t1_j1z6mo8 wrote

“Considers”?!?!

I'll go ahead and make the executive decision and say, put the restrictions on, ffs.

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t-poke t1_j1z906j wrote

What's the point? COVID is in literally every country in the world.

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Bigapple235 t1_j1z9ksa wrote

Replying to t-poke (#1,116,136)

Damn politicians, always trying to politicize everything. They should care about the tens of thousands of gun deaths every year, the terrible crime rate, and the protection of the rights and interests of women and children.

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estagiannand t1_j1zdub4 wrote

It's not racist now because it's (D)ifferent

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Soren_Camus1905 t1_j1zm8t7 wrote

Replying to estagiannand (#1,117,137)

I mean you joke but it’s kinda true. When a republicans wants something done it’s typically from a place of malice, discrimination, and ignorance. I don’t mind saying it because they’ve consistently demonstrated this over the years.

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MynameisJunie t1_j1zpvnr wrote

Please do! They started it all once, we don’t need it again. Only what is it really this time???

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bertiebasit t1_j1zsp6f wrote

I don’t understand China here, they are at the beginning of a massive Covid wave and they now start to allow international travel for its citizens?

Something very sinister about this decision.

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kasper04 t1_j1ztjlp wrote

Wait I thought this was racist? Why would Joe Biden do this to these poor Chinese people?

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optimaloutcome t1_j1zwzw5 wrote

Wasn't this sort of thing considered racist three years ago?

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Armand74 t1_j200t2r wrote

Considers?? WTF this is how we got Covid on our shores anyways.. We already have a surge going on here do we need to add more to that?? Fucking hell.

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CaraDune01 t1_j203hs9 wrote

Replying to thefanciestcat (#1,120,277)

Exactly. Everything they’ve (“they” meaning the Chinese government) done since this started is “nothing to see here, everything’s under control” while things are on fire and very much not under control.

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CaraDune01 t1_j203qno wrote

“Considers”? 🙄 Can we maybe just actually do something proactive before it’s too late to be useful? For once?

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Stenwoldbeetle t1_j204zx3 wrote

Just ban Chinese people from traveling to all places.

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Code2008 t1_j207kie wrote

Replying to kasper04 (#1,120,221)

Yep. Would be the exact same thing Trump did in 2020.

Absolutely pointless when they could just go to say Vancouver instead, get those folks infected, and now Canadians who aren't being restricted will still carry it across.

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DocHolidayiN t1_j207zo5 wrote

Knowing what we now know about the chinese govt and their handling/mishandling/outright lying about covid 19 to allow travel without restriction FROM china is suicidal.I can't (and you shouldn't)believe we are going to allow this to happen again.

I'm calling my congress critter and you should too. Trade and travel isn't a suicide pact.

*words

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callmegecko t1_j2093eb wrote

Weird! Google says they only have ever had 1.91 million cases and 5,000 deaths! This can't be true

Edit: /s FFS

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mces97 t1_j2093y8 wrote

Ah yes, let's consider them. But let's wait a while until some new mutant strains of covid come here. Cause, we just love doing everything ass backwards. On the flip side, any mutants that got out, are out already. By the time we ever seem to take action it's already too late.

Best advise? Limit indoor activities, wear at least a kn95. Get your booster. Protect yourself. Cause no one else gonna.

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mces97 t1_j209r31 wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,119,024)

Honestly, we can't do shit to stop the spread if we have global travel. Just one motherfucker slipping thru the cracks or a false negative means it's gonna spread. Covid started with patient zero. No way to contain it. Testing buys just a few weeks of time to prepare. Cats out of the bag and until we find better vaccines, or better treatment that truly is as easy as just pop some pills and you'll be fine, like antibiotics do (not saying use antibiotics obviously, just example), that's how covid "ends." It will be with us forever for try foreseeable future but at some point I do expect it to be something that we aren't afraid of anymore because treatment will stop it in it's tracks.

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mces97 t1_j20a0e8 wrote

Replying to Armand74 (#1,121,558)

It's already here man. Covid started with 1 person. And that's all it took to cause a global pandemic. By the time you're sick, 100s of people could had been infected. By the time they're sick, 1000s.

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mephi5to t1_j20alyo wrote

Replying to HardlyDecent (#1,118,803)

Not even Covid. For 2 covid years we haven’t had flue or cold. I am all for it.

Ppl should stop treating masks as “I am afraid” and do like Japanese - “I am wearing mask because IAM sick or feel under weather but have to travel so I am sorry and I protect you”

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WolfThick t1_j20b4hx wrote

Consider what does that actually mean I'll think about it I'll get back to you I don't know yet well let me see. Not sure if this is 11th grade journalism or what they actually said.

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Fun-Translator1494 t1_j20gqzn wrote

Travel restrictions don’t work and the US already has endemic Covid proliferation.

What does work is wearing a mask in public indoor spaces and getting vaccinated.

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TerribleGramber_Nazi t1_j20hqma wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,124,500)

There’s quite a difference with locking people in factories and to accommodate their zero covid policy to have zero policy for covid.

Honestly feels like Xi is being dramatic like a teenager and taking their hands off the wheel completely to prove a point after their driving was criticized. “You don’t like how I’m steering? Fine! If YoU ReAlLy dOnT wAnT mE tO StEeRThE CaR!”

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throwaway_0x90 t1_j20m8ro wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,124,500)

> Redditors: Spend months saying China should lifted restrictions and to live with COVID and to give people freedom

Nobody said that. People said ***give them effective vaccines*** and then let them have freedom.

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mrbaryonyx t1_j20nrzo wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,124,500)

yeah there's no big conspiracy: we're just now seeing what happens when a country with an enormous population, and economic connections to every corner of the globe, gets sick. at a certain point, the only thing that can stop that shit from happening again is to go full authoritarian with the lockdowns, and not only does nobody outside of China want that for its citizens, its still not really working

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tantramx t1_j20p5uo wrote

I seem to remember something like this in 2019 being called racist. I wonder what has changed.

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EbolaaPancakes t1_j20sud3 wrote

Replying to bertiebasit (#1,120,052)

This literally happened in China in the beginning of the pandemic. People were getting sick, infection was spreading, they allowed international flights to continue but stopped domestic. In those early days, To question any of chinas decisions was considered xenophobic.

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dasherchan t1_j20yl5h wrote

This won't work . We were in the same situation before.

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Wedjat_88 t1_j2143zh wrote

Ready to suffer for two more years because of communist twats?

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HildemarTendler t1_j214ejk wrote

Replying to tantramx (#1,125,841)

I'm quite perplexed by this comment. Are you naively asking why this is different today? Or are you cheekily drawing attention to how everything is actually very different now? I can easily read it both ways.

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afrothunder2104 t1_j214q3x wrote

Replying to [deleted] (#1,126,663)

Show me where this was said by a large swathe of people? I think the complaint were his racist usage of China Virus and Wuhan Virus, not barring people from a country flying in. This reads like somebody trying to play the victim card from something 3 years ago. Nice try.

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tummy1o t1_j215y90 wrote

Should’ve already been put in place. This is ludicrous.

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PM_ME_TRICEPS t1_j21br2t wrote

Lol I'll just wait here for the calls that Biden is a xenophobe and racist if they do this. ☺️

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NAGDABBITALL t1_j21gc75 wrote

Best to let a low-virulence variant spread immunity. Issue a notice to the elderly and otherwise compromised.

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AvailableName9999 t1_j21k3j3 wrote

Replying to Code2008 (#1,122,790)

It's not like we don't have a shit ton of covid here already. Arguably, this is worse than the initial travel ban because the cat has been out of the bag for years and no one wanted to do fuck all about it. Containment is impossible

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AvailableName9999 t1_j21kanb wrote

Replying to random20190826 (#1,127,775)

Yeah, I wanted to say that China is not a race but a nation but I didn't want to fight with anyone. Either way this travel ban is asinine because you're not stopping covid. That ship has sailed, took a global cruise and returned

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archosauros t1_j21l6sp wrote

Replying to tahlyn (#1,125,086)

So the government made time travel to go back in time to fix things problem is that they've been using too much and now time is out of whack so now we are always on a repeat of 2016 no matter. It's why all this crazy shit keeps happening its just a cycle of crazy no matter what

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SerinaL t1_j21o957 wrote

Why the H are we letting anyone in with Covid!?

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Beau_Buffett t1_j22333w wrote

Replying to tahlyn (#1,115,532)

I know someone in Shanghai, and they were going out like life was normal while we were all masked up and whatnot.

The Chinese isolated ill people to the point that their population hasn't been through the process of some dingalings pretending covid isn't real and others trying to stay safe. Instead, these massive lockdowns happened until recently.

I think it basically means that China is still in the early stages.

I also think it's potentially germ warfare to open your borders at the same time you end the lockdowns and know that half the country is going to be infected.

Ima go get a booster next week.

It's going to take about 5 minutes to share this with the whole world.

Considering restrictions? No, they should be in place right now.

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awe778 t1_j22g9qy wrote

Replying to mephi5to (#1,123,332)

That require 85%+ of Americans to treat America as something that they should take care of.

Given how some of them treat reality, that's not going to work.

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manwithafrotto t1_j22ln9n wrote

China is stopping domestic flights due to covid but allowing a plane full of 50% positive cases to travel out of the country? Why is this?

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jackthedipper18 t1_j22nb4i wrote

When trump wanted to do this, it was racist. What makes it acceptable now?

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Divallo t1_j233hf1 wrote

Replying to thefanciestcat (#1,120,277)

It's more than just saving face.

China actively wants people around the world to die so that proportionately they don't lose power on the world stage by dragging everyone down.

It's basically premeditated mass murder.

And this isn't the first time. This is just iike 2020. China covered up covid even existing including arresting whistleblowers and then they told a bunch of lies and they played a leading role in spreading covid 19 conspiracy theories for good measure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_misinformation_by_China

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Prestigious_Main_364 t1_j23qv0t wrote

Replying to mces97 (#1,123,181)

That and our bodies will progressively adapt to it. It’ll eventually descend into the same category as the flu in a few decades as people immune responses get better and better and fighting covid. It’s not the first time in human history that viruses essentially killed themselves over hundreds of years.

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HildemarTendler t1_j256mb8 wrote

Replying to jackthedipper18 (#1,152,821)

You're making baseless accusations and are wildly uniformed about the state of the world. Do you understand the current proposal is due to China's huge swing in covid cases? That's nothing like what Trump was doing.

But again, you're likely more aware of this since you have strong opinions and you're just arguing in bad faith.

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RemmyGamez t1_j2e9y32 wrote

Didn't the world force them to drop their covid zero policies? Guess they kinda knew what was right for them.

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