Science: travelers from zero-COVID China need medical testing, but undocumented migrants do not

by philg

Here’s the Science question of the day…

To protect the United States, which currently has 30,000 COVID “cases” per day and 600 COVID-tagged deaths per day., from COVID, our Science-following CDC requires that someone arriving with a passport from zero-COVID China undergo medical testing for COVID prior to travel. If he/she/ze/they is not a U.S. citizen, he/she/ze/they is required to also require proof of the Sacrament of Fauci (vaccination). (See CDC order of November 8, 2021.)

The Scientists at the Science-oriented CDC, on the other hand, have Scientifically determined that a migrant who says “I am under 18” can cross the border and stay permanently in the U.S. without either a COVID test or a COVID vaccine. The Science changed after a federal judge said that the Biden administration could not exempt people who said that they were minors from the Science. See “Biden administration says it will not expel migrant children following court order” (CBS):

The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which first authorized the migrant expulsions in March 2020, terminated the government’s ability to expel children who enter U.S. border custody without their parents. U.S. border officials can still use the policy, known as Title 42, to expel single adult migrants and families traveling with children to Mexico or their home countries.

Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Pittman said the administration could no longer exempt unaccompanied minors from Title 42, arguing that Texas, which challenged the exemption, was financially harmed by the placement of migrant children in the state due to medical and schooling costs.

In a notice Friday, CDC officials said they recognized the “unique vulnerabilities” of unaccompanied minors.

“In the current termination, CDC addresses the court’s concerns and has determined, after considering current public health conditions and recent developments, that expulsion of unaccompanied noncitizen children is not warranted to protect the public health,” the agency said.

In a separate 21-page order justifying the decision to end Title 42 for unaccompanied children, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky cited the recent nationwide decrease in COVID-19 cases, as well as increased vaccination rates in the U.S. and in the home countries of migrants who journey to the southern border.

Science dictates that the border will be completely open to all unvaccinated and untested migrants as of May (Politico), even those who don’t say “I am under 18,” thus adding approximately 1 million additional residents to the U.S. annually (2 million were expelled during the last two years, according to Politico). So don’t say “no” if you’re offered the opportunity to invest in a crony capitalist “affordable housing” scheme!

(See “The affordable majority: Three misconceptions about investment in affordable housing”:

… affordable housing targets the masses and serves the primary rental cohort in the United States, with about 72 percent of renters falling in the affordable-housing category. … Compared with market-rate apartments, affordable and workforce housing are, in a sense, recession-proof and provide downside protection to investors. … Because of this rising demand and diminishing supply, affordable-housing units experience little to no turnover and are almost always fully-occupied, consistently maintaining occupancy rates of about 98 percent. This differs significantly from market-rate apartments, which average about a 50 percent turnover rate.

Overall, “affordable” does not necessarily mean smaller returns. Investor portfolios in the affordable-housing sector tend to have stronger returns on investment, increased and stabilized cash flows, and provide investors with downside protection.

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Circling back to the immigration policy that Science (via the CDC) has given the United States, how is it consistent with the documented traveler testing requirement policy that Science (via the CDC) has given the United States? How is a U.S. citizen returning from a zero-COVID country a higher COVID risk, thus requiring pre-departure testing, than an undocumented migrant who has traveled overland through multiple COVID-plagued countries?

Only loosely related, a hotel in China, November 2019, that already had the tables separated for COVID prevention…

(The double boiled pig’s lung soup was about $200 at the exchange rate of late 2019.)

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13 thoughts on “Science: travelers from zero-COVID China need medical testing, but undocumented migrants do not”

  1. Normally I would have written this type of thing off as the schizophrenia that normally occurs when two different government organs have jurisdiction over the people/situation in question. Because then it becomes a matter of reconciling policy between separate mini-fiefdoms, each with their own turfholders, complete with engraved switchblade knives.

    But this is All CDC! How can we have total schizophrenia coming from the same Centers for Disease Control?

    • Perhaps because they are, in fact, schizophreniacs? After 20th century with its history of mega-murder by socialist regimes of all stripes – Bolsheviks, Maoists, Nazis, Khmer Rouge, to name a few – it takes real mental illness to be a believer in socialism. And Democrats (and Democrat-dominated federal agencies like CDC) are socialists, no ifs and no buts about that.

  2. how is it consistent with the documented traveler testing requirement policy that Science (via the CDC) has given the United States? The CDC is consistently inconsistent!

  3. Speaking for myself, I think the double-boiled pig’s lung soup – especially just all by itself – is kind of gross at that price.

    If I was going to spend that kind of money on dinner, it would be this (five snacks, eight courses and petit four + wine/juice pairings = 2400 DKK ~= $350 USD) in Denmark:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2CukEXUI6w

    Here:

    https://denroedecottage.dk/en/

    Or, something like this:

    $270 Omi Beef + Lobster in Kyoto:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaUNrT11I5A

    But what do I know about gourmet food?

    • BTW On the first YouTube video of the Red Cottage dinner, you can see the ingredients by turning on the subtitles. I was delighted to see this video from Aden Films as I am part Dutch and he did a series of recent videos on this splendid little restaurant. Whoever he is, the guy (and I’m sure it’s a guy) is waaaaaaay above average as a first-person videographer. His visuals and pacing are excellent but on top of that, he captures the sounds and ambience really well.

      For all the hundreds or thousands of terrible YouTube channels out there, a few rise to the top and the Aden Films channel does. I wish I could do that for a living.

  5. This is an interview from a huge Shanghai detention center for Wuhan Virus suspects (Canadian rulers will be green with envy). Recommended for maskologists and political theater analysts:

    • Anon: Thanks for this. Her decision to go get tested certainly doesn’t seem to have been wise! But maybe they would have come to her apartment to test her eventually? Also, the test results within the camp are not confidence-inspiring: negative, positive, negative, negative. No showers! She says it is challenging “especially for girls”. How does she define “girls”? Let’s hope that there is a biologist in the camp also! She admits to using a VPN to read news about her native Ukraine (speaking of that, the interviewee probably speaks Ukrainian, Russian, English (very well), and Mandarin; that’s impressive!). She has way better mobile data service than what Verizon provides here in Jupiter or maybe it is the convention center’s public WiFi? (WiFi inside the Shanghai airport was great)

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