The White House is resisting lifting U.S. travel bans on a broad swath of foreign countries. And critics of the bansΒ point to Jeff Zients as the main obstacle standing in the way https://t.co/GYRfwh9Me0
there is no scientific reason behind the travel ban so I would like to askβ¦ are you trying to blackmail the EU for some political reason? @POTUS@CDCgov why donβt you tell us why is Turkey with 7x higher infection rate allowed to enter the US and the EU not? #loveisnotourism
@kathyf@DaveKeating Absolutely right. Most Europeans who want to travel to the US right now are not your typical kind of tourist, they just want to see people they love. They're not going to storm the beaches in LA or Florida βΉ
Looking at the data, it's hard to see why the US is banning EU citizens while it's letting in citizens of Russia, Colombia, Indonesia, Chile, Argentina etc.
The only logic seems to be the Biden admin is afraid of domestic political backlash for removing EU from the ban.