Democrat President Joe Biden has announced a travel ban on India after two months of a resurgence of COVID-19.
“Biden is expected to impose new travel restrictions on India starting Tuesday in light of the COVID-19 epidemic, barring most non-U.S. citizens from entering the United States,” Reuters reported. “The new restrictions are on the advice of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and are imposed ‘in light of extraordinarily high COVID-19 case loads and multiple variants circulating in India.’”
Biden attacked Trump’s travel ban on Europe in March 2020, during a time when COVID-19 was rare enough for the spread to be effectively suppressed by a travel ban, calling Trump’s ban “xenophobic.”
Biden later tweeted that “Banning all travel from Europe – or any other part of the world – will not stop [COVID-19].”
“This disease could impact every nation and any person on the planet – and we need a plan to combat it,” Biden added.
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— Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) April 30, 2021
Not only did Biden follow in former President Trump’s footsteps with travel bans that he has said were ineffective, Biden has also used the same manufacturing and distribution plan that the Trump administration had created while his administration has repeatedly claimed there was no plan when he entered office.
After Biden made this claim in early March, former HHS Assistant Secretary for Health Admiral Brett Giroir responded to it on Twitter, pointing out how the “current” plan is the exact same as “explicitly described” in Trump’s Operation Warp Speed.
“I am so tired of the continuing lies that @potus inherited a #COVID19Vaccine mess, when in fact 99% of current vaccine manufacturing and distribution is EXACTLY as planned and explicitly described by Trump Administration’s Operation Warp Speed,” Giroir wrote.
I am so tired of the continuing lies that @potus inherited a #COVID19Vaccine mess, when in fact 99% of current vaccine manufacturing and distribution is EXACTLY as planned and explicitly described by Trump Administration's Operation Warp Speed
— Brett Giroir (@DrGiroir) February 25, 2021