It was not the beginning. In both cases of a travel ban, were after infections and spreading were already occurring. The first infection was diagnosed on January 20th. The ban from China occurred on January 31st. He stopped only foreign travelers from China. Of course, any infected Americans could come on in. Which, by the way, would not have stopped the first infection. As he was an American returning from Wuhan. The virus does not care about citizenship.

The first infection in New York occurred on March 1st. So, why did his travel ban not work to protect NY since it was done “in the beginning”? It wasn’t the loophole in the travel ban. It wasn’t domestic travel. Why? Because the strain in New York was from Europe rather than China like the first infection was. Travel from Europe was restricted on March 11th. Also, impacting only foreign travelers. You seeing a pattern yet? Those bans were nothing but reactionary after the damage had been done to look like something was being done. The cancelling of flights should have been ridiculed for being too little too late. They weren’t but, they should have been.

Pretending they had any ability of stop the pandemic is laughable. Why? Because they didn’t do shit. We are still where we are today even though they were done.