Nothing stops people from China from flying to Europe and then the US.
Nothing.
Yes, it was racism. Yes, it was pointless. Do you want to continue this discussion further?
What portion of the traveling population is willing to take trans-continental detours like that? Some controls are better than NO controls.
>>>Yes, it was racism. Yes, it was pointless.
Are you saying that strict controls on population movements originating from the source geographic region of a virus should never be implemented as an early step to containment?
Obama did it in 2014 in response to Ebola: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/21/us-limited-e...
and Asia did it to varying degrees in response to SARS in 2003: https://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/news/battling-the-spread-...