The Travel Ban Wrecks Commerce, Constitution, and Civility.
China will end COVID travel restrictions, but the US will not. In the topsy-turvy world we are now living in, I can’t say I’m surprised the US is the last country in the world to maintain a travel ban, but we should be outraged.
The ban on international travel began as a Trump-era pandemic response to limit the spread of COVID. Biden continued the policy in 2021, but he took efforts to restore travel. By Presidential Proclamation
, Joe Biden reinstated international travel, but only for foreigners vaccinated against COVID.
The justification for not allowing unvaccinated non-immigrant non-citizens is “to prevent further introduction, transmission, and spread of COVID-19” into the United States. A seemingly valiant effort at the time to keep citizens safe, it is now outdated, unnecessary, and quite frankly unconstitutional.
Not only is maintaining this ban nonsensical, but it is also damaging our economy and international integrity at the great expense of the individuals directly impacted by its draconian prohibition.
#covid19 #vaccines #restrictions #travelban #mentalhealth
https://brownstone.org/articles/travel-ban-wrecks-commerce-constitution-civility/
