Did He Really Stop The Flow From China Early?....

[global1]

He keeps saying that. He keeps patting himself on the back for that.

Did he really stop the flow early? Why does he keep saying that?

[Hugin]

1. No, he did not.

It's a lie.

If you recall at that time his buds were selling off their stock and he was bellowing about how it was a contained hoax.

[DonaldsRump]

2. I think this is a "Big Lie"

I tried to get a post starting on this where folks could add in their own experience or articles that they may have read. Can we see about resurrecting this? His "sealing of the borders" was, AFAIK, a joke:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213159363

[Progressive Law]

3. It's misleading.

The State Dept merely issued a "travel advisory" against China on Jan 6. The actual "ban" repugs keep referring to did not happen until much later.

[uponit7771]

4. No, it should've been on Jan 1

[gibraltar72]

5. Lying.

[Phoenix61]

6. Italy stopped all travel from China before US

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/davekeating/2020/03/12/italy-banned-flights-from-china-before-americait-didnt-work/amp/

[Caliman73]

7. No. AND... It doesn't really matter.

Other than to say, it could be worse (I could have REALLY fucked it up). We have more cases than ANYWHERE else in the world and we still haven't begun testing sufficiently, and are still half-assing the effort to stop the spread. We have ZERO leadership at the National level. All we have is an ugly buffoon spouting a bunch of bullshit everyday which does not help the situation at all.

Trump lies because it comes easily and naturally to him. He says things not just to lie, but to corrupt and destroy the notions of facts and truth.

[jmg257]

8. Around the end of January started seriously messing with travel...

The Trump administration’s decision to ban most foreign nationals who had been to China in the last two weeks from traveling to the United States amid an accelerating outbreak of a novel coronavirus there was preceded by calls for similar policies from conservative lawmakers and far-right supporters of the president. Public health experts, however, warn that the move could do more harm than good.

The administration’s public health emergency declaration also requires U.S. citizens returning from China to undergo some level of quarantine, depending on where they had been in China.

Before the announcement Friday,