Banned In Boston

If you're like me, and you must be to read this drivel, the insistent proclamation from The Orange Shitgibbon that he 'banned travel from China' sounds ever so much off. Doesn't it? Well, yes it is. What's surprising, at least to me, is that the first complete report from my fingers walking through the Yellow Googles is from 'The Washington Times', a notorious Right Wingnut organ. Memory tells me that it was/is a Moonie organ. Yup, still is, through more corporate spider webs, of course.

That the Trump administration "banned flights," "closed the borders," or "stopped flights" from first China and later the European Union to halt the spread of COVID-19 has become a staple of its defense of its response to the pandemic. But it simply isn't true. At no time through the course of this awful period have flights even once been halted between either China and the U.S. or Europe — including even Italy — and the United States.

And, if you look, you'll find that airlines had been reducing seats and flights before the 'order' from The Orange Shitgibbon, simply because people weren't traveling there.