By Ted Noel, MD
Every now and then an obvious comparison yields teachable moments. The current occupant of the Oval Office has declared that travel to the US from several nations in southern Africa is not OK. After all, the drive-by media first got hysterical about the Omicron Variant when word came of cases in South Africa. Certainly, if we keep all Africans from the southern part of the continent out of the U.S., the evil Omicron virus will be contained. And all God’s children said, “Amen.”
But early last year, when President Trump banned travel from China as the Fauci Flu outbreak began, His Eminence, the Lord High Priest of Science, declared that Trump was being “xenophobic.” At that time, the public information was that COVID was in China. There was a prima facie case to be made that stopping travel from China might keep COVID out of the U.S.
