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  Seems purely retaliatory with no actual effectiveness.
  Enforcement is over a week away and presumably China has hit its peak already (flights being 40% positive)
context: People from China will travel through Europe and come in to America from the east coast like they did when the pandemic started. This will do nothing if all travelers aboard aren’t made to test. >
  
  I agree.
  Although part of the rule is that you must get tested if you were in China 10 days prior to your departure from China to anywhere basically. 
  I’m not sure how they will enforce this but I guess it’s supposed to work.. >
  
  Passports show a history of where somebody has been. They're literally stamped. >
  
  I think they're scanned now instead of visually confirming the stamps. Which is even easier. >
  
  yeah there is definitely a digital aspect to it, just not sure exactly what >
  
  Every country has scanners, every country does biometrics. Even crossing the border to some 3rd world country like Cambodia, they scan your finger prints and take a picture, scan your passport. They know where you have been. 
  Where you run into an issue is dual citizenship or green cards. Someone from China could enter China using their Chinese passport, but enter the US on a green card. US has no real idea you were in China. >
  
  I've travelled a lot and MOST countries have biometric passports. In customs lines, I still see some people without biometric passports now and again. I imagine that a number of these people are from countries that do have biometric passports, but they have an older passport that hasn't expired yet.
  Also, I've noticed that customs deal with folks from countries that have diplomatically adversarial relationships differently. They rely more on paper visas and stamps than electronic records. So I'm not sure how much the US government trusts the more technologically advanced passports from China. But a mix of old and new technologies is definitely used by border officials.
  Anecdotally, as an American, my passport does not get stamped for countries like Australia and Canada. Most European countries will still physically stamp it, especially if the country is your first entry into the Schengen Region. And China? They put a paper visa on an entire page of my passport. >
  
  Here we go again.
  This time I think I'll learn French cooking. >
  
  5000 People a day will have to die before Anybody says the word Lock down in the States ever again. >
  
  That would really help thin out the GOP voters.
  Hmm.
  (eyes mask on desk)
  Hmm. >
  
  Except it’s certainly going to hurt high population urban areas first again >
  
  Nowhere nearly as bad the first time. High population areas have much better vaccination rates. That wasn't a factor last time.
  Issue is going to be the fact that some minority populations have very poor vaccination rates (comparably) in many of those same areas and they will be hit much harder. 
  When it hits Trump country, it'll be a repeat of before.
  What to worry about is if our country can survive politically and socially, which could be what China is hoping will happen. >
  
  I've been reading that the vaccinations are not as effective as they used to be, but still provide protection. >
  
  It's a very important distinction though. It's the distinction that made all the difference every step of the way. 
  China can royally fuck things up for another year and half with this stunt as a new vaccine is developed and mass released to combat a new variant. >
  
  “Here we go again” from everyone in the comments. 
  The virus never stopped, we did. >
  
  Virus will always be there. Permanent restrictions are unsustainable >
  
  3 years later...
  Is this permanent? >
  
  I doubt there's anything that would make Republicans running in 2024 happier then Democrats advocating for a return to COVID restrictions. >
  
  China's COVID-19 surge raises odds of new coronavirus variants
  Things could get very ugly. >
  
  You say this like covid hasn't been spreading rampantly through literally every country on the planet, mostly without any measures to stop the spread. Why does China get a different treatment and maybe countries should require tests from the US or Inida or Europe? >
  
  It's an odds game. Delta and omicron evolved when covid was jumping bodies freely at scale. The more bodies that it jumps to, the more chances for a mutation that persists. That mutation is totally random, and may just mutate to be more lethal.
  Now China is having an explosion, worse than any country has seen, on a massive population. That will give the virus ample opportunity to mutate.
  So, to your point, yes covid has become endemic and has been jumping bodies, but this may be throwing a gasoline canister on a low and steady fire.
  At least that's the knee-jerk reaction. This winter has seen high covid numbers in general, so maybe the fire was already raging. I haven't been following closely this year. >
  
  What’s that saying that ends with ”…doomed to repeat it?” >
  
  When’s that $1200 going to hit my account? >
  
  I’m still living off mine from last time! >
  
  Same. I quit my job and watch Netflix all day. Good thing my room to rent is only $10 per month. >
  
  Damn. Maybe Ohio ain't so bad if that's what we're missing out on. >
  
  Good luck finding a $10/month apartment EVEN in Ohio! >
  
  I thought I was living a life of luxury in Dayton in 2010 for $650 a month.
  Now I live in a shoebox in Nashville for $1,550 >
  
  "Does that thumbnail of someone getting tested read too much like 'screaming uselessly into the void'?"
  "I'm sure it'll be fine." >
  
  Doesn’t make sense in singling out China when covid is widespread in every single country >
  
  The extent of covid in china atm is just absurd. Two weeks ago, they had 37 MILLION cases in one day. Think about that. Thats more people than a lot of countries! 
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