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InTheArena on Jan 12, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: U.S. to require negative Covid-19 tests for intern...

I don't know if you remember, but when Trump started to cut of china, it was immediately taken to be yet another xenophobic action.

Then it was a matter of rapid COVID tests not being available. It probably should been a few months ago.

amluto on Jan 12, 2021 | [–]

It was. A sensible policy would have restricted all entries — at the time Trump restricted entry from China, there was no credible reason to believe that it hadn’t spread elsewhere.

chillwaves on Jan 12, 2021 | [–]

Except that's not what he did.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/the-facts-on-trumps-travel...

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