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  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.
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.